{"id":55884,"date":"2025-07-11T04:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/55884\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T04:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:11:11","slug":"wagga-wagga-man-charged-with-displaying-nazi-symbols-over-shopfront-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/55884\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagga Wagga man charged with displaying Nazi symbols over shopfront poster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has been charged under recently introduced laws banning the display of Nazi symbols over a shopfront poster depicting Coalition politicians and Australian billionaires as German World War II soldiers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The display, a series of posters depicting then-opposition leader Peter Dutton, former deputy prime minister Michael McCormack, and miners Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer dressed as Nazis, appeared in a Wagga Wagga shop window during the March federal Election campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">On March 31, police were alerted to the business storefront display on the city&#8217;s main street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">At the time, police told the ABC that it had sought legal advice, and it was determined the display did not break the Australian Criminal Code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">On Tuesday July 8 &#8220;following further inquiries&#8221;, police charged the 69-year-old with knowingly displaying Nazi symbols without an excuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">NSW hate crime laws were passed in February this year in response to an increase in hate speech and a string of anti-Semitic incidents in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The shop owner was served a court attendance notice to appear on August 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged under recently introduced laws banning the display of Nazi symbols over a shopfront&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,117,41047,41045,50,41046,41048],"class_list":{"0":"post-55884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-nazi","11":"tag-nazi-posters","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-wagga-waggga","14":"tag-world-war-ii"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114832650083029382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}