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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
A year in jail for mooning and a Nazi salute
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA French court convicted a Bosnian basketball fan for doing a Nazi salute during a match between the national teams of Israel and Russia and ruled to imprison him for a year, according to the French website BFMTV.
Edin Mehinovic, 35, also showed his derriere (i.e. mooned) the players. BFMTV noted that the verdict far exceeds what the law mandates for incitement to hatred and sexual assault in France.
In what the website called “an absurd line of defense,” Mehinovic told the court that he made the racist gesture “to show three extremist Swiss fans sitting near me exactly what they should not do.” He said he exposed his buttocks because “I was provoked by the public when I got up to make the gesture.”
Mehinovic was convicted on Monday.
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