Prominent nationalist activist Jacob Hersant has been taken into custody after having his one-month jail sentence for performing a Nazi salute upheld by a judge following the loss of his appeal against his conviction and punishment late last year.
Mr Hersant, 26, argued that he did not perform the salute, and that Victoria’s Nazi salute laws were invalid as they violated the implied right of all Australians to political communication under the Constitution Judge Simon Moglia ruled against him last month.
Judge Moglia found Mr Hersant, the former leader of now-disbanded activist group the National Socialist Network, guilty of intentionally performing the salute, and determined that while the right to political communication had been “effectively burdened”, the laws were necessary to protect Victorians from “harm”.
The father-of-one faced the County Court of Victoria in Melbourne on Wednesday where Judge Moglia re-sentenced him to the same one month prison term originally handed down in the Melbourne Magistrates Court in 2024, and fined him $1,000 for breaching a Community Corrections Order by performing the gesture outside the same court in October 2023 following sentencing over a clash with far-left activists that took place in 2021.
He intends to take his constitutional appeal to a higher court, but will do so after serving his prison sentence, and is now the first Australian to be jailed for performing a Nazi salute.
More to follow.
Header image: Left, Mr Hersant outside court on Tuesday (10 News). Right, making the salute (9News).
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