Man charged with making nazi salute at trans rights rally

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Man charged with making ***** salute at trans rights rally

A man has been charged as *********** states crackdown on ***** salutes and symbols.

A 20-year-old man stepped out in front of a transgender pride march in Sydney on Saturday, allgedly flashing a fascist salute at the crowd before being arrested.

Police will allege the man also made threatening remarks.

He received bail and will be in court in January, facing charges of knowingly displaying a ***** symbol without excuse and making a gesture in a public place that is a ***** salute.

He momentarily interrupted a march marking “Trans Day of Resistance”, as demonstrators walked through Sydney’s Camperdown.

Camera IconImages from the Trans Day of Resistance protest.

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The marchers were voicing demands for an end to police stripsearching ****** and trans people.

The ralliers also want trans and ****** people to not be held in immigration detention or deported to nations “where they will be in mortal danger”.

Protesters were also calling for students and workers to not be fired or expelled because of their own orientation or identity, and better housing and workplace protections for people who in the past had worked as **** workers.

NSW has a permit system for public demonstrations, and police were prepared for counter-protesters at the event.

Footage shows police walking alongside a small group of protesters, and police cars following the procession.

Camera IconThe 20-year-old will face the Newton Local Court on January 14.

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The 20-year-old who was charged after the incident is scheduled to appear in the Newtown Local Court on January 14.

This is just the latest in a string of *****-related incidents in Australia in recent times.

Last month Daniel Muston, 41, Ryan Peter Marshall, 31, and Anthony Raymond Mitchell, 32, were convicted for the “heil *******” salutes they performed outside Sydney ******* Museum.

Laws criminalising ***** symbols passed the NSW parliament in 2022.

Three men, who did not know each other but all happened to be of Croatian heritage, were convicted of performing a ***** salute at a soccer match in Sydney in 2022. This week, the guilty verdicts for two of the men were overturned.

Camera IconProud fascist Jacob Hersant was the first person in Victoria convicted of performing a banned ***** salute, as relatively new laws in Victoria and NSW continue to bring people before the courts for making white supremacist salutes and displaying ***** symbols. NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui Credit: News Corp Australia

All three men had argued their symbols were not linked to fascism but instead were Croatian gestures.

Victoria passed similar *****-banning legislation in 2023. Proud neo-***** Jacob Hersant, 25, performed a version of a ***** salute in front of news cameras on the steps of the County Court in the days after the new laws took effect.

In October a magistrate heard Hersant’s lawyer argue the ***** salute was a legitimate form of political expression; Magistrate Brett Sonnet found Hersant guilty. Hersant was granted appeal bail.

He made the white supremacy salute after just escaping jail time on a violent disorder charge after a group of 25 men, mostly masked, attacked a group of hikers in a state park outside Melbourne.

In another separate incident, well-known Sydney restaurant owner Alan Yazbek was found guilty of displaying a ***** symbol at a pro-************ rally and is due to be sentenced in December.

The 56-year-old brandished a sign at the rally which mimicked the ******** flag, but replaced the Star of David with a ********* and read “stop ***** *******”.

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