Experts say ban’s success would depend on willingness to prosecute and wider legislative approach that targets ideology may be more effective
Daniel Andrews says the Victorian government will aim to learn important lessons from Europe in order to shield its proposed Nazi salute ban from legal battles.
But Andrews also pointed to “some challenges” face by some European countries that have banned the Nazi salute, leading them to further refine their legislation. The legislation requires that a person intentionally used the symbol in a public spaces and ought to have known the it is aligned with Nazi ideology.
Roose said authorities in England have recently looked to provisions for racially aggravated harm offences to prosecute offenders, pointing to the case last year of a football fan who made the Nazi salute towards supporters of another premier league teams. TheBut Mario Peucker, an extremism expert at Victoria University, warned that focusing on banning specific gestures – similar to Germany’s model – did not tackle the underlying drivers of far-right extremism.
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