Man arrested after Nazi salute in front of Israeli athletes at European Championships in Munich
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Munich police arrested a 19-year-old young man on Wednesday, who gave a Nazi salute to a delegation of Israeli athletes passing by, on the sidelines of the European Omnisports Championships, which are currently taking place in the German city.
The perpetrator faces three years in prison
The facts were observed by the police themselves who were escorting 16 athletes on their way to a monument erected in memory of the victims of the attack perpetrated in 1972 by the Palestinian organization Black September at the Munich Olympic Games, which cost the life of 11 members of the Israeli delegation (a West German policeman was also killed; the police shot dead five of the terrorists who had attacked the Israeli delegation).
” In the current state of the investigation, the group (of athletes) hadn’t noticed the gesture of the young man),” the police said in a statement. The author of the Nazi salute was released after a complaint was filed against him. In Germany, a Nazi salute, or the wearing of Nazi signs – such as the swastika – can be worth up to three years in prison.
A tense climate of commemoration
The incident comes as Germany prepares to commemorate, in a tense climate, the 50th anniversary of the attack on the Munich Games. The families of the victims have indeed announced that they refused to go to the commemorations.
On Tuesday, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, also added fuel to the fire. During a press conference in Berlin, with Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, he refused to answer a question about the Munich bombing, comparing, instead, the crimes committed against the Palestinians to a holocaust, remarks strongly condemned, in particular in Israel and Germany.
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