Starting this Monday, Australia imposes a sentence of up to one year in prison for people who give the Nazi salute in public, as well as those who display or market Nazi symbols as flags or insignia of the Third Reich.

The ‘Amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Legislation (Prohibited Hate Symbols and Other Measures)’, which came into force after being approved by the Australian Parliament on December 6, It also makes it illegal to glorify and glorify terrorist acts. and supremacist hatred.

“There is no place in Australia for acts and symbols that glorify the horrors of the Holocaust and terrorist acts,” Australian Attorney General Mark Dreyfus said in a statement today. The Australian Attorney General also emphasized that the law will prevent the glorification or financial gain of “symbols that celebrate the Nazis and their diabolical ideology“.

The entry into force of the new law occurs in the midst of the increase in hate crimes against the Jewish and Muslim community in the wake of the war between Israel and Hamas, although the rise of far-right groups was already a prior concern.

Previously, some Australian jurisdictions, such as Tasmania and Victoria, banned the Nazi salute last year and punished it with jail terms and heavy fines. In the country, however, exceptions apply regarding the display of the swastika in educational, artistic, scientific, academic or religious contexts.