Man charged after AFP blitz on far-right symbols
“It wasn’t 6 million and it wasn’t genocide, they were being deported,” Delacour wrote on Facebook last month.
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The NSW government has given police and courts greater powers to crack down on public displays of Nazi ideology following a controversial rally outside the state parliament last month.
At the November 8 rally, there were two rows of black-clad men holding a banner calling for “Eliminate the Jewish lobby.”
Nutt said federal police carried out a week-long concerted action between Nov. 27 and Dec. 4 targeting the display and potentially illegal commercialization of banned symbols.
Police allege the 43-year-old British national, living in Queensland, used two
Officers raided a house in Caboolture in November and seized a number of weapons, including swords, axes and knives decorated with the swastika symbol.
The man was charged with three counts of publicly displaying banned Nazi symbols and one count of using a transport service with intent to threaten, harass or cause offence.
He will appear in court again in January.
A 21-year-old Brisbane man faces up to five years in prison after police seized flags, books, balaclavas and electronic devices from his home. The man was charged with two counts of possessing or controlling violent extremist material after appearing before the Brisbane Magistrates Court last week.
Australian Border Force deputy commissioner Tony Smith said: “Antisemitism threatens the safety and security of not only the Jewish and Muslim communities in Australia, but of Australia as a whole. It puts at risk our present and future as a peaceful, free, harmonious and diverse multicultural society.”
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