Three men have been charged after they allegedly performed a Nazi salute outside Sydney’s Jewish Museum on Friday.
Police were called to the Darlinghurst museum shortly before noon, where they proceeded to arrest the men. They were taken to Kings Cross police station and later charged with behaving in offensive manner near a public place and knowingly displaying a Nazi symbol without excuse, NSW police said in a statement on Friday evening.
Police surrounded the museum and local streets on Friday.
Speaking at a snap press conference on Friday afternoon, the NSW premier, Chris Minns, said he was “extremely concerned”.
“Those people are in custody and there is no place for that in NSW and I expect … the full extent of the law will be applied to those people,” he said.
“There will be no tolerance for racial vilification in NSW or incitement to violence. It’s not going to happen.
“Police are vigilant. There is no tolerance for it. You’ll be arrested if you do it.”
The men – aged 30, 31, and 40 – were released on conditional bail to appear in Downing Centre local court on 31 October.
