Neo-Nazi terrorist organisation posters plastered across Geelong’s Pakington Street
A retailer on multicultural Pakington Street has been left sickened after the strip was plastered with propaganda from a far-right terrorist organisation.
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A retailer on multicultural Pakington Street has been left sickened after the strip was plastered with propaganda from a neo-Nazi terrorist organisation.
The shop owner, who did not want to be named, said she removed 14 posters promoting dangerous far-right militant group Combat 18, including one reading “Multiculturism: Spreading Disease With The Greatest of Ease”.
Another read “White Pride World Wide”.
She believed the stickers were specifically aimed at non-white businesses in the area.
“It is quite frightening that there is this sort of tone in our city,” she said.
“I have been left completely disgusted.”
The woman, a daughter of an Asian immigrant, said she called the police immediately after investigating website links on the posters.
Combat 18 was formed in the UK in 1992 and seeks to form white-only countries through violence.
They have been named as a terror group in several countries, including Canada and Germany, and have been linked to the murder of a German politician.
“I was completely ignorant to this sort of activity happening in Geelong,” the woman said.
“I am white passing, It makes me worry for people who are not.”
Police are aware of the incident.
It follows the emergence of a Nazi swastika symbol painted on a North Geelong warehouse in April, an act that drew the ire of Jewish leaders and the broader community.
Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner Ro Allen, in response to the recent Geelong incidents, said the community “should be able to live their life free from hate.”
“However, we know that Victoria’s Jewish communities continue to face anti-Semitism and that the public display of Nazi symbols causes serious harm,” she said.
Jewish Community Council of Victoria president Daniel Aghion said the recent appearance of the swastika on Thompson Road was “criminal”.
It comes as the federal government announced it will get tough on public displays of anti-Semitism, criminalising key Nazi symbols and banning the sale of memorabilia featuring them.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the new laws made it illegal to use them on flags and armbands or to print them on clothes.
“There is no place in Australia for symbols that glorify the horrors of the Holocaust, and there is no place for those who seek to profit from the trade in these evil symbols or use them to promote their hatred,” he said.
The symbols were already banned in Victoria after a bill was passed in June last year, with offenders facing up to 12 months behind bars.
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