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.
Nazis doing a Nazi salute. Wow. So shocking.
Good job Germany. You’re giving platforms to your own past shame in the freaking government, and covering for their modern counterparts (Israel) in the same breath.
He got charged… Meaning it’s not ok and illegal
Yeah, but the political party this one person comes from (and exemplifies) is gaining ground rapidly in the German government.
Maybe then the problem is the people?
That’s how I took it when they said “Good job Germany.”
I always find this amusing. When people say things like “Get it together, Country!” or ,“What’s going on with Country?”, the country becomes this amorphous thing vs a culmination of it’s population.