Prince allegedly gives mock Nazi salute to HAJ security
Dec 5, 2004, 1:57 pm
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Prince allegedly gives mock Nazi salute to HAJ security
BERLIN -- Prince Ernst August of Hanover, the controversy-prone husband of Caroline of Monaco, allegedly gave the stiff-arm Hitler salute to an airport security guard during an argument, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The security guard told police the dispute erupted when the prince resisted being checked before boarding a plane Nov. 24 at Hanover's Langenhagen airport, prosecutors in the city said.
Ernst August allegedly shouted insults, then raised his arm in a Nazi salute, said a prosecutors' spokesman, Thomas Klinge.
He said prosecutors were considering whether to charge the prince with verbally abusing the security agent and making an outlawed Nazi gesture.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...0Rowdy%20Royal
The security guard told police the dispute erupted when the prince resisted being checked before boarding a plane Nov. 24 at Hanover's Langenhagen airport, prosecutors in the city said.
Ernst August allegedly shouted insults, then raised his arm in a Nazi salute, said a prosecutors' spokesman, Thomas Klinge.
He said prosecutors were considering whether to charge the prince with verbally abusing the security agent and making an outlawed Nazi gesture.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...0Rowdy%20Royal
Dec 5, 2004, 2:24 pm
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Originally Posted by HeHateY
He said prosecutors were considering whether to charge the prince with verbally abusing the security agent and making an outlawed Nazi gesture.
There's a LAW against the infamous Nazi salute??
Dec 5, 2004, 3:18 pm
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Free speech and free expression are not as protected elsewhere as they are in the US. Things that are considered "hate speech" or "hate expression" can be grounds for prosecution and shut-down and these kind of laws are in the books in many (if not most "democracies"). Of course prosecutions are selective since the security forces and prosecutor's offices in many areas are, often enough, disproportionately composed of right-wing sympathizers.
Dec 5, 2004, 5:17 pm
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Originally Posted by LeoB
Lots of laws in Germany against anything that would revive or glorify the Nazi party.
Dec 6, 2004, 7:13 am
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Originally Posted by Psychocadet
I thought we were gonna talk about the singer...