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Israeli student arrested for Nazi salute at Auschwitz during school trip (www.jpost.com)

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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.

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[–] zeropublix@lemmy.ml 53 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Teens doing dumb stuff isn’t a hall pass. Actions have consequences. Those consequences take this into account and often are mitigated but still enforced

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 30 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah the kid got like a $400 fine and told not to do that again. I think that's a fair punishment for doing something really really stupid as a teenager.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'd thrown in some community service on top, or 24 hours in jail if that's not feasible. Fines just go to the kid's parents - who also deserve to be punished tbf, based on how badly they've raised their kid to behave.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago

Yeah I considered community service too, and I think it would be a fair alternative.

When I was young and dumb I got caught spraying some graffiti and got like 50 or 60 hours of community service. Which would equal like $6-8/hr, and I think that's a pretty even trade.

[+] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Most of the time I would agree with this. If a teen gets caught stealing or vandalizing I think they need to be taught a lesson. However, this feels like something done just to break the rules which is on point for most teens.

[–] thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 34 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'd rather see teens getting away with stealing or vandalism than with normalizing Nazi shit (especially at a place like Auschwitz)

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Nazi shit, from an israeli teen. I can't wrap my head around chocking such a onion worthy act getting written off by "boys will be boys".

Actually now I think on it, almost any time I hear about "dumb teen" stuff I think they get away with way more then what is healthy for society.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago

It's about the fact that teenagers have underdeveloped reasoning skills and deserve some leniency while they develop their sense of right from wrong. As well just, if your goal is there being a net reduction of nazis in society, then imprisoning a teenager for throwing the salute is probably not going to achieve that.