Israel’s ambassador in Berlin has criticised a “shameful” far-right politician he has accused of dancing on the nation’s Holocaust memorial.
Ambassador Ron Prosor retweeted a picture of Holger Winterstein, a member of the Alternative for Germany occasion, standing on one of many stone slabs of the memorial together with his arms outstretched.
Mr Prosor wrote in his tweet in German: “Mr. Winterstein, everyone is watching you dance while you bring shame on yourself and your party.
“Enjoy your shameful minute of fame as a result of your identify will quickly be forgotten.
“The sanctified souls commemorated at the memorial will never be forgotten.”
The memorial within the German capital is a reminder of the greater than six million Jews who had been murdered by the Nazis within the Holocaust in the course of the Second World War.
Mr Prosor is from Israel which is the nation state of the Jewish folks.
German media reported that the image was taken after a protest organised on Saturday by Alternative for Germany.
The far-right occasion, recognized by its German acronym AfD, stated it might take motion in opposition to Mr Winterstein over his “extremely disrespectful behaviour”.
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Mr Winterstein is a county consultant in Thuringia.
In 2018, the occasion’s chief within the state, Bjoern Hoecke, referred to as the Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame” and referred to as for Germany to carry out a “180-degree turn” in the case of the best way it remembers its previous.
A celebration tribunal on the time rejected a bid to have him expelled.
Source: information.sky.com”