Nazi salute

Democracy is under threat across the world. Fewer people today live in democracies than did two decades ago. Opposition to democracy, and to capitalism, has grown as populists launch "culture wars" - cruelly exploiting migrants and minorities - and appeal to the socially and economically excluded. This is a cocktail variously stirred by Trump, Brexit, Modi, Le Pen, Orban and Meloni.

Üsküdar American Academy made an apology visit to Ulus Jewish High School after some of its students made "Nazi salutes" during a football match between the schools.

On March 14, the Üsküdar American Academy football team and the Ulus Jewish High School team faced each other in an inter-high school football match organized by the Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Education.

Angel Dzhambazki speaking in the European Parliament. Source: Dzhambazki's YouTube channel

Dzhambazki allegedly made the gesture while leaving the chamber on Wednesday after a stormy debate on the rule of law in Poland and Hungary.

Turkey on Oct. 15 criticized France over a request for UEFA sanctions on the Turkish National Football Team for performing a military salute.

The trial of Golden Dawn continued on Friday with the testimonies of two former MPs of the neo-Nazi party, both of whom claimed to have been unaware that GD championed Nazi ideals.

Deputy Sports Minister Giorgos Vassiliadis has called for an investigation into audiovisual material from a Nations League soccer game in Athens on Sunday between Greece and Estonia, where supporters of the home team were captured on video making the Nazi salute and holding up a flag with the black sun used as a symbol by the SS.

Five Croatian citizens have been given suspended sentences for doing Nazi salutes and shouting fascist Ustasa chants during a controversial World War II commemoration in Bleiburg in Austria.

Prosecutors in the Austrian city of Salzburg have indicted 14 Dinamo Zagreb fans – residents of Austria, Germany and Switzerland – for glorifying the Croatian WWII fascist Ustasa regime and giving Nazi salutes.

Serbian anti-fascists filed criminal and misdemeanour complaints against members of far-right groups for making Nazi salutes at a rally to commemorate WWII-era puppet government premier Milan Nedic.

An incident happened in Croatia's capital Zagreb on Thursday evening that left one person lightly injured, Croatian media are reporting.

The local police confirmed for the website index.hr that they received a report about the incident, which took place in a tram traveling on city line 6.