BERLIN — Two men are convicted of violating German laws against displaying Nazi-era symbols for etching a giant swastika into the dirt on the roof a house and leaving it there for months.
The dpa news agency reports that the two defendants, aged 30 and 31, are convicted Wednesday by an administrative court in the southern city of Augsburg and each fined about 5,000 euros ($5,885).
The younger man, not identified in line with privacy laws, tells the court that he used a high-pressure water jet to draw the swastika as a “stupid joke” at a garden party.
The homeowner says he hadn’t bothered to remove it for several months, until police started investigating the case in January.
The judge says there was no evidence the two had neo-Nazi leanings.
— AP
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