In recent years, Lazio fans have been accused of being anti-Semitic. What the black shirts mean and what the German police will do.
German police announced on Tuesday that it had opened an investigation after fans of the Roman club Lazio would have been seen on Monday giving the fascist salute in a brewery Munich where Adolf Hitler approved the Nazi party program.
In amateur videos sent to AFP and recorded around 10:30 p.m., Dozens of fans dressed in the colors and shirts of Lazio Roma can be seen at the Hofbräuhaus doing the Nazi or fascist salute, with the right arm extended and raised.
The video where you can see the Nazi salutes
“An operation at the Hofbräuhaus can be confirmed. Due to the investigation still open, we cannot say anything more at this time,” he told AFP Munich police on Tuesday.
“Yesterday, Monday, March 4, there were already Lazio fans in Munich, in various places in the city and also in the Hofbräuhaus. From 6:00 p.m. the Munich police were in front of and inside the Hofbräuhaus. That’s something “normal before a football game or a big event”indicated the brewery for its part.
“If there was behavior contrary to the constitution or xenophobic, we firmly condemn it”added those responsible for the establishment.
In a video published on the Italian newspaper’s Instagram account The Republic, Lazio fans can also be seen singing: “We don’t care about prison, the Black Shirts will triumph. If they do not succeed, there will be chaos with batons and grenades. Duce! Duce! Duce!”
What do the black shirts with which they were seen making Nazi salutes mean?
The Black Shirts refer to the militia of the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. In recent years, Lazio fans have regularly been singled out for racist or anti-Semitic behavior.
In 2017, They manipulated an image of Anna Frank, the Jewish teenager who died in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany, who was illustrated with an AS Roma t-shirt.
Founded at the end of the 16th centurythe Hofbräuhaus is a brewery in Munich, where In February 1920, Adolf Hitler presented the 25 points of the Nazi party program.
Source: Ambito
