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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Basford Canales

Police return art posters of Trump and Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms to Canberra venue after no charges laid

David Howe at Dissent café. Police seize art posters depicting Trump, Putin and Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms from Canberra bar.
Dissent’s owner, David Howe, said the art posters depicting world leaders and others in Nazi uniforms were clearly an ‘anti-fascist’ statement and called police intervention ‘ludicrous’. Photograph: Sarah Basford Canales/The Guardian

Police will return seized art posters to a Canberra music venue that depicted Donald Trump and other world leaders in Nazi uniforms, confirming there would be no charges laid under new hate symbol laws.

The ACT senator David Pocock demanded the police should apologise to the venue’s owner while describing the new laws as “flawed and rushed”.

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