Police said a group of about 25 people gathered for an “unplanned demonstration” at about 1.30am on Saturday.
Police are investigating an early morning demonstration in Melbourne’s CBD after witness reports of a group of people dressed in black, marching and giving Nazi salutes.
The Nazi gathering came a week after Hamas launched attacks in Israel, sparking retaliatory air strikes on the Gaza Strip, with thousands of civilians killed on both sides. On Friday, thousands gathered at a vigil in Caulfield in solidarity with Israel after the Hamas attacks. A Free Palestine rally is to be held in Melbourne on Sunday.Allan said that Victorians stood with the Jewish communities at this difficult time.
“Police will however, assess the circumstances surrounding the demonstration and review vision of the incident and people involved.”showed men in black making Nazi salutes at Flinders Street station and again as they boarded a train. They were approached by police officers before entering the station and boarding a train on the Werribee line about 1.50am, the report said.On the train, they were seen trying to hand out promotional material for Australia’s largest neo-Nazi group, the National Socialist Network, and asking a passenger if they were Jewish.Deputy Opposition Leader David Southwick said the demonstrators should not be allowed to “incite hate and threaten violence”.
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