The convict and others shouted and chanted racist slogans to the rhythm of the song L’amour toujours by the Italian artist Gigi D’Agostino.
On Wednesday, a court in the Austrian city of Wels handed down a four-month suspended sentence to a 25-year-old man for violating the law banning Nazi symbols. TASR informs about this with reference to the report of the DPA agency.
The convicted man and two other people shouted and chanted racist slogans in Bad Ischl in July to the rhythm of the song L’amour toujours by the Italian artist Gigi D’Agostino. Evidence was provided to the court by witnesses.
“Germany for Germans, foreigners away”
A twenty-five-year-old man and a nineteen-year-old youth confessed to the crime, although the younger of the pair was not convicted. However, both will have to undergo a tour of the former Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen in Austria.
A 16-year-old girl was also accused, who denied the guilt and was acquitted by the court, writes DPA.
The city of Bad Ischl lies east of Salzburg and is one of the three European capitals of culture this year. Since May, there have been several cases of chanting “Germany for Germans, foreigners away” to the tune of L’amour toujours in Germany and Austria. The popular party song has been repeatedly appropriated by right-wing extremists in Germany this year.
