BERLIN —
Berlin’s police chief apologized on Monday for an incident wherein officers had been pictured training push-ups on part of the German capital’s memorial to the 6 million Jews killed within the Nazi Holocaust.
Footage printed by Berlin’s B.Z. tabloid confirmed uniformed policemen leaning on one of many slabs that makes up the Holocaust memorial to observe push-ups. The newspaper stated they had been stills from a video apparently taken by the officers themselves on a cellphone throughout a vacation weekend in Could after they had been deployed to the realm due to demonstrations.
The memorial, a discipline of two,700 grey concrete slabs close to the Brandenburg Gate that opened in 2005, is open across the clock and is not surrounded by any limitations. Guests are purported to chorus from actions corresponding to working and leaping from one slab to a different.
Berlin police chief Barbara Slowik stated the service would study the incident internally.
“The colleagues’ habits disrespects what this memorial stands for and likewise offends the reminiscence of those that had been murdered,” Slowik stated.
The GdP union, which represents cops, additionally apologized and condemned the “tastelessness” of the officers’ actions, including that there should be “penalties” for these concerned. “The Holocaust memorial is just not an journey playground,” it stated.
