German arrested for Nazi salute to Israeli athletes visiting 1972 Munich massacre memorial

August 19, 2022 by JNS
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German police on Wednesday announced that a security officer had been detained for giving the Nazi salute in front of a group of Israeli athletes that were visiting a memorial to the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.

The bodies of Israeli athletes killed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich arrive in Israel ahead of burial services. Credit: Eldan David/GPO via Wikimedia Commons

“One of the four security guards present was observed at around 7:20 p.m. making a National Socialist gesture (‘Hitler salute’),” AFP cited police as saying.

Sixteen members of Israel’s delegation to the European Championships visited the landmark on Tuesday ahead of a competition in Munich.

The arrest occurred ahead of next month’s 50th anniversary of the killing by Palestinian terrorists of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Israeli Ambassador to Berlin Ron Prosor retweeted a Sueddeutsche Zeitung article claiming the 19-year-old German security guard was of “Arab descent” and connected the incident with remarks made the same day by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas.

Abbas on Tuesday said during a joint press conference with Germany’s chancellor in Berlin that Israel had perpetrated “50 Holocausts” against the Palestinians.

“If we want to go over the past, go ahead. I have 50 slaughters that Israel committed … 50 massacres, 50 slaughters, 50 holocausts,” the P.A. chief told reporters following a meeting with Olaf Scholz.

Abbas made the comments after having been asked whether he intended to apologise to Israel and Germany in advance of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 terrorist attack in Munich.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, early on Wednesday, slammed the statement as a “moral disgrace” and “monstrous lie.”

JNS

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