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MP allegedly greeted a party colleague at German parliament building ‘with a heel click and a Hitler salute’

Berlin prosecutors say they have charged a member of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party with making a Nazi salute in parliament.

The suspect allegedly “greeted a party colleague … at the east entrance to the Reichstag building with a heel click and a Hitler salute” in June 2023, the prosecutors said in a statement issued on Monday.

Making such a salute is illegal in Germany and is punishable by up to three years in prison.

The newspaper Bild named the politician as Matthias Moosdorf, 60, a member of parliament for Zwickau in the former East German state of Saxony.

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (7 children)

No good comes from this. This is the equivalent threatening or intending for violence.

And yet, I'm told by another user, a free speech absolutist, that this is absolutely normal and should be protected.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

this is absolutely normal and should be protected

I mean, to take a line from Inglorious Bastards

I 'magine you're gonna take off that handsome-lookin' S.S. uniform of yours, ain'tcha?... That's what I thought. Now that I can't abide... I mean, if I had my way... you'd wear that goddamn uniform for the rest of your pecker-suckin' life.

I much prefer the Nazis who are wearing their beliefs on their sleeves.

Only problem is that they don't ever come out of the woodwork until they've got safety in numbers.

The problem Germany has in the modern day isn't a bunch of schlubs throwing up Nazi salutes. Its the much larger pool of industrial and media insiders who have goaded them into it, financed their little fascist friend-groups, and sponsored them to seize power to the benefit of the far-right plutocracy.

Liberals panick when they see the former, but they're constantly trying to win over the latter. You can't clean your house of insects if you keep trying to make friends with the Queen Bee.

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