A pair of nationalist activists face up to a year in jail for allegedly wearing Nazi symbols on their clothing at Melbourne’s Flinders Street Railway Station.
National Socialist Network (NSN) members Michael Nelson and Nathan Bull, both in their early 20s, were charged this week with “displaying a Nazi symbol” and “behaving in an offensive manner in a public place” over the alleged incident on June 20 this year.
Mr Nelson was allegedly wearing a black T-shirt bearing a black sun symbol, an image of Ned Kelly and the anti-immigration slogan “Fuck off we’re full”, while Mr Bull was allegedly wearing a black hoodie with an image of Adolf Hitler on the back along with the words “common sense patriot” in white capital letters.
Victoria Police allege the black sun on Mr Nelson’s shirt violated Victoria’s Nazi symbols laws because it allegedly incorporated “six SS emblems in its design”, and that the image of Hitler on Mr Bull’s hoodie was a Nazi symbol.
Police also allege officers were alerted after passers-by started yelling at the two NSN activists as they walked through the station, and said police then removed them both from the train.
Mr Nelson wrote on his Telegram channel after being charged that the only passers-by objecting to their presence were “brown Palestinian Antifa freaks”.
He also posted a video showing a verbal debate between him, Mr Bull, and two women wearing Palestinian scarves, saying the far-left group “followed us for about two hours then hysterically screamed at Flinders Street Station calling us Nazis as no one around us cared”.
Victoria’s Nazi symbols laws came into effect in 2022, are punishable by a maximum 12 months’ imprisonment and/or a $23,000 fine, and cover “symbols used by the Nazi Party and its paramilitary arms”.
Mr Nelson and Mr Bull are also facing Nazi gesture charges for a separate alleged incident, and offensive behaviour charges for allegedly booing during a “welcome to country” performance at the Shrine of Remembrance on Anzac Day, along with NSN leader Jacob Hersant, while earlier this year Mr Nelson was raided by police for allegedly posting a meme containing a swastika on Telegram.
Header image: Left, CCTV images of the alleged incident (supplied).
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