The 39-year-old is said to have forwarded 126 relevant pictures and videos to seven people and a WhatsApp group via WhatsApp. He admitted that he sent such files. “But I didn’t think anything of it. It was stupid,” said the previously innocent man.
“He said he wasn’t a Nazi”
Public prosecutor Katrin Ferstl pointed out, however, that a conditional resolution alone was enough to fulfill the offense. It is enough if the accused at least seriously considers it possible or resigns himself to the fact that National Socialism is portrayed positively and the atrocities of the National Socialists are played down. “He said he wasn’t a Nazi. But it doesn’t depend on the attitude you have yourself.”
Whatsapp photos show corpses on the ground
According to the indictment, the man from Tennengau sent the relevant WhatsApp messages in the period of three and a half years until 2019. They were seized during the evaluation of his cell phone. One could see human corpses lying on the ground, next to them a Wehrmacht soldier aiming a gun at the dead. “Asylum application refused,” read the text.
Relevant posts on the anniversary of Hitler’s birthday
The prosecutor warned that the accused had forwarded relevant articles relating to Hitler’s birthday several times on the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s birthday, although he had stated that he did not know that Hitler’s birthday was that day. The accused continued to plead his innocence. “I’m sorry. I never wanted to appear Nazi.” He received the pictures from other people and sent them on without thinking anything. “Sometimes I didn’t check what I got.” He also did not write the attached texts himself.
The chairman of the jury, judge Ilona Schalwich-Mozes, tried the Salzburg man on the tooth. If he really didn’t think anything of it, why did he forward these files to a select group of people and not to the other contacts on his cell phone or to his girlfriend? “I sent the pictures to people from whom I got something like this. I’m sorry, I didn’t want to glorify that,” replied the Salzburg native. Presumably, a judgment will still be given today.
(Those: APA)
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