A 33-year-old German man is handed a suspended sentence of eight months by a court in the eastern city of Chemnitz for making the illegal Hitler salute during far-right protests.
The Chemnitz local, who was not named, is also fined 2,000 euros ($2,300) over his action on September 1.
The penalty is more lenient than the one-year prison sentence sought by prosecutors, who are examining whether to lodge an appeal.
Thousands of demonstrators had answered a call by the far-right party AfD and the Islamophobic PEGIDA street movement to march over the fatal stabbing of a man, allegedly by asylum seekers, in late August.
During the heated rallies, a handful of people were seen publicly making the illegal salute, while others were shouting anti-foreigner slurs.
A 34-year-old man is due in court tomorrow over a similar charge.
— AFP
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