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Dresden police officer allegedly showed Hitler salute

Several officers started the weekend in high spirits. They are said to have been "heavily intoxicated".(Bild: Jacob Ammentorp Lund, stock.adobe.com)

Dresden police have launched an investigation into one of their officers who allegedly gave the Hitler salute at a party at Hohnstein Castle in Saxon Switzerland on Friday night. 

Officers are said to have played the song "L'amour Toujours" by Gigi D'Agostino while "heavily intoxicated". One officer is said to have danced to it and shown the Hitler salute.

A "currently unknown" officer from the Dresden police department is being investigated, it was reported. The investigation concerns the suspicion of using symbols of unconstitutional organizations. In addition to the opening of criminal proceedings, disciplinary measures are being examined.

The song "L'amour Toujours", which dates back to 1999, made headlines in Germany, particularly in connection with an incident on the North Sea island of Sylt. Several young people there sang the lines "Foreigners out" and "Germany to the Germans" to the party hit in a posh bar.

Similar incidents have also occurred at folk and shooting festivals in Bavaria and Lower Saxony, at a party organized by rural youth in Tyrol and at the Austria-Turkey European Championship match last week in Leipzig.