In this November 21, 2015 photo provided by Alexander Marguier shows a man with a tattoo of what appeared to be the Auschwitz death camp on his back in a public swimming pool in Oranienburg, eastern Germany. (AP Photo)
Berlin:
A far-right politician in Germany was found guilty today of incitement for showing a tattoo of what appeared to be the Auschwitz death camp while visiting a swimming pool.
A court in Oranienburg handed Marcel Zech a suspended six-month sentence.
German news agency DPA reported that the 27-year-old admitted displaying the tattoo with the slogan from the Buchenwald concentration camps' gate, "Jedem das Seine" - "to each his own" - at a pool on November 21.
Another bather took a photo of the tattoo and passed it on to authorities.
Prosecutors had asked for an unsuspended 10-month sentence for Zech for violating the country's ban on the public display of Nazi symbols. The defendant is a member of the far-right National Democratic Party, sits on the Barnim county council near Berlin and has a previous conviction for bodily harm, DPA reported.
A court in Oranienburg handed Marcel Zech a suspended six-month sentence.
German news agency DPA reported that the 27-year-old admitted displaying the tattoo with the slogan from the Buchenwald concentration camps' gate, "Jedem das Seine" - "to each his own" - at a pool on November 21.
Another bather took a photo of the tattoo and passed it on to authorities.
Prosecutors had asked for an unsuspended 10-month sentence for Zech for violating the country's ban on the public display of Nazi symbols. The defendant is a member of the far-right National Democratic Party, sits on the Barnim county council near Berlin and has a previous conviction for bodily harm, DPA reported.
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