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The Belgian government has been urged to investigate the death of a man in police custody after an officer sat on his rib cage for 16 minutes and another apparently made a Nazi salute. Jozef Chovanec, a 38-year old Slovakian citizen, was arrested at Charleroi airport in February 2018 after causing a disturbance while boarding a flight to Bratislava. Taken to a cell, he started banging his head against a wall, causing bleeding. On Wednesday video images emerged showing how he was pinned down in the cell by six police officers. One officer sat on his rib cage for 16 minutes, according to Het Laatse Nieuws, which obtained the footage. The officers laughed “exuberantly” while one danced and made a Nazi salute, according to a doctor’s report. A blanket was over Chovanec’s face for some time. Chovanec died in hospital the following day. His wife, Henrieta Chovancova, has said the killing of George Floyd in the US in May was reminiscent of her husband’s death. “When [the police] saw the blood, they should have given him first aid. Instead they sat on him with so many people. He couldn’t breathe properly,” she said.

via guardian: Belgian police officer made ‘Nazi’ salute in cell of man who died

siehe auch: Footage Shows Police Officer Giving ‘Nazi Salute’ Before Man Died in Custody. Images of Jozef Chovanec being restrained by police before his death also show an officer sitting on his chest for 16 minutes. Images have emerged of a police officer making what appears to be a Nazi salute while multiple other officers restrain a man who later died in police custody. Slovakian Jozef Chovanec was arrested at Belgium’s Charleroi airport in 2018 after causing a disturbance on his flight. Put in a cell, he began to act erratically, banging his head against a wall until he started to bleed. At this point, officers tried to restrain Chovanec, and video from his cell shows one officer sitting on his rib cage for 16 minutes. The footage, obtained by Belgian newspaper Het Laatse Nieuws, also shows a group of officers laughing and one making a Nazi salute, while appearing to hold her fingers to her face to represent a Hitler moustache. Chovanec was hospitalised after the incident, but fell into a coma and died the following day. An autopsy showed he had not been under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and it is unknown why he was acting erratically; Tödliche Polizeigewalt. Mann stirbt nach Festnahme auf Flughafen im belgischen Charleroi. Beteiligte Polizistin zeigte Hitlergruß. Aufschrei erst nach Videoveröffentlichung. Die belgische Tageszeitung Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN) hat am Mittwoch ein brisantes Video zu einem Fall hochgeladen, der eigentlich als vergessen galt: Jozef Chovanec wollte am 24. Februar 2018 vom Flughafen Brüssel-Charleroi aus ins slowakische Bratislava fliegen, wo seine Frau und seine kleine Tochter auf ihn warteten. Doch der 38jährige starb nach einem brutalen Polizeieinsatz am Flughafen in Belgien

Ein Thüringer Polizist steht in Verdacht, eine Straftat mit rechtsextremen Bezug begangenen zu haben. Es geht um das Verwenden verfassungsfeindlicher Symbole. Intern wird schon ermittelt. Bei der Thüringer Polizei laufen interne Ermittlungen gegen einen Polizisten wegen einer mutmaßlich rechtsextremen Straftat. Dabei geht es um das Verwenden von Kennzeichen verfassungswidriger Organisationen, wie das Thüringer Innenministerium auf Anfrage der Deutschen Presse-Agentur mitteilte. Ein Verstoß dieser Art kann zum Beispiel das Zeigen eines Hitler-Grußes sein. Um welches Vergehen es sich genau handelt, ließ das Ministerium zunächst offen. Gegen den Polizeibeamten sei in diesem Jahr ein Disziplinarverfahren eingeleitet worden, hieß es. Es gehe dabei um einen rechtsextremistischen Bezug

via ta: Thüringen – Verdacht auf Rechtsextremismus: Ermittlungen gegen Polizisten

Before embarking on his livestreamed murder of 51 Muslim worshippers in two mosques in Christchurch last year, the Australian white supremacist Terrorist Brenton Tarrant posted a manifesto online. He claimed that his ideological beliefs were shared “in every place of employment and field” in Western countries but “disproportionately” so “in military services and law enforcement”. He estimated that the “number of soldiers in European armed forces that also belong to nationalist groups to number in the hundreds of thousands, with just as many employed in law enforcement positions”. Tarrant may not have been entirely exaggerating. In recent weeks, reports broke of extensive infiltration by neo-Nazis of Germany’s most elite special forces unit, known by its German acronym, the KSK. Certain KSK members reportedly pilfered 62 kg of explosives and 48,000 rounds of ammunition from KSK stocks. This prompted the German defence minister to disband an entire KSK fighting company seen as infested with extremists. White supremacist sentiments within the security forces is hardly a German problem.
In the United Kingdom, there have been similar concerns of white supremacist groups such as National Action targetting British servicemen for recruitment. Across the Atlantic, violent white supremacist groups such as the Atomwaffen Division and others have indoctrinated a number of United States servicemen as well. This disturbing phenomenon of white supremacist penetration of Western security forces is a function of the societal and political mainstreaming of such ideas in wider communities in Western countries such as Germany. THE GREAT REPLACEMENT MOTIF White supremacist extremism, also known as “right-wing” and “far right” extremism, is a broad label of convenience that lumps together, amongst others, white nationalist, neo-Nazi, anti-immigrant, anti-gun control, anti-LGBTQ and increasingly even misogynistic grievances. While its key tropes have gestated for decades, an underlying theme that has come to the fore in recent times has been the notion of what the French philosopher Reynaud Camus in 2012 called Le Grand Remplacement (The Great Replacement). This argument holds that white, Christian Europe is being overrun by masses of black and brown Muslim immigrants from North and sub-Saharan Africa. (…) That said, their ideas have become mainstream in European circles to such an extent that some observers note that “if you go to a horse race betting bar and talk politics” and “mention the ‘great replacement’, people will understand what you mean”. Worse, the Great Replacement motif has been weaponised as a rallying cry for white supremacist shooters around the world, including Tarrant, whose own manifesto is tellingly entitled — The Great Replacement. THE WIDER ECOSYSTEM OF WHITE SUPREMACISM Certainly in Germany itself, the Great Replacement theme finds expression within the intellectual ranks of the so-called New Right. This is a broad, well-networked movement with transnational links comprising — not the neo-Nazi skinheads of the “Old Right” — but rather well-educated, social media-savvy businessmen, publishers and young civil society activists of groups like Generation Identity, as well as the older, equally well-heeled politicians of the right-wing Alternative for Germany, or AfD. As one observer put it, the New Right has rebranded white supremacist extremism in Germany, giving it “a friendly face”. The New Right message is not that friendly though.

via todayonline: When extremists and white supremacists infiltrate security forces