An Israeli high school student was arrested and questioned by police for doing a Nazi salute during a school trip to Auschwitz, Israeli media reported on Sunday.

The teenager from Kiryat Bialik was on his school’s field trip to Poland when he did the gesture under the entrance sign to the camp.

He was questioned for two hours by Polish police and was fined approximately NIS 1,500 after security guards observed him performing the salute. The museum also captured the incident on its security cameras; the footage was handed over to the police.

Polish police charged him with promoting Nazism, local media reported. Performing a seig heil is illegal in Poland, and carries a potential sentence of up to two years in prison.

  • ilega_dh@feddit.nl
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    17 hours ago

    It’s not that deep. Lots of teenagers do edgy stuff just because it’s edgy and not allowed.

    He’ll look back in 10 years cringing about himself.

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        3 hours ago

        The world is not that black and white my dude, go outside sometimes

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          These assholes killed my friends in lebannon. Maybe you should go outside of your first world ivory tower, kankerliker

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      6 hours ago

      It’s not that deep. Lots of teenagers do edgy stuff just because it’s edgy and not allowed.

      Thank goodness we can arrest them for it. Imagine the objective harm & deprivation of rights or peaceful access to opportunities or resources that teenage edginess causes to society. Right?