Fifteen males and a boy from totally different elements of Australia have been arrested in Adelaide right this moment, together with one charged with displaying a Nazi image.
Members of the Nationwide Socialist Community (NSN), a neo-Nazi group that has been monitored by authorities for a lot of months, had been photographed wearing black, carrying sun shades and waving Australian flags as they marched by means of Adelaide on Australia Day.
Imaginative and prescient of the lads confirmed them chanting “Australia for the white man” and banging a drum whereas strolling, in addition to singing Waltzing Matilda on the metropolis’s battle memorial.
Police stated all of these charged had been NSN members.
They launched an in depth breakdown of the 16 individuals arrested, revealing most had travelled to South Australia from NSW, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania.
Police had been photographed pinning NSN members to the bottom throughout arrests on the Parklands.
Close by a peaceable protest was going down involving individuals opposing the nationwide day being held on January 26.
The disruption compelled the “Survival Day” occasion organisers to delay their march till police gave the all-clear.
Police stated the arrests had been individuals “not concerned in organised occasions or protests”.
“Police had been happy with the overwhelming majority of group members who attended the Adelaide CBD right this moment to take part within the occasions held, together with the Tour Down Beneath and different Australia Day occasions,” police stated.
The 16 charged will doubtless seem within the Adelaide Magistrates Courtroom on Tuesday.
The arrests and costs embody:
- 16-year-old Victorian boy charged with fail to stop loiter
- 58-year-old NSW man charged with possess article of disguise
- 24-year-old Brompton, South Australia man charged with fail to stop loiter
- 23-year-old Victorian man charged with assault police
- 31-year-old Victorian man charged with fail to stop loiter
- 25-year-old man (tackle to be confirmed) charged with possess article of disguise
- 55-year-old man from Western Australia charged with possess article of disguise
- 25-year-old Tasmanian man charged with fail to stop loiter
- 23-year-old Victorian man charged with possess article of disguise
- 29-year-old man (tackle to be confirmed) charged with fail to stop loiter
- 36-year-old Queensland man charged with fail to stop loiter
- 30-year-old man from WA charged with possess article of disguise
- 25-year-old man from WA charged with possess article of disguise and use Nazi image
- 21-year-old man from NSW charged with fail to stop loiter
- 41-year-old Victorian man charged with fail to stop loiter
- 31-year-old man from NSW charged with refuse title and tackle and possess article of disguise.
