Father on trial

Countless NS postings as a mere “pastime”

He is alleged to have shot a bird in the garden with a shotgun and silencer. The trial for cruelty to animals will be heard separately.(Bild: HERBERT NEUBAUER)

Photos of Hitler shared: A man from Mostviertel (44) has now been sentenced to probation and a fine for National Socialist reactivation.

"I'm an 08/15 man and don't run around with flags on the street," explains a man from Mostviertel. The 44-year-old had been distributing photos with Nazi ideology on a grand scale for years. Now the father of the family had to answer to the court in St. Pölten for re-activation and a violation of the Weapons Act - and confessed to all 82 charges. He "slipped into it", he says.

The fact that cannabis plants were also seized in the course of the house search and that he had once shot a bird in the garden with a shotgun including a silencer (proceedings for cruelty to animals are still ongoing) was then only a "side issue". Sentence: 15 months conditional imprisonment plus a fine - not legally binding.