A Lithuanian politician burned an Israeli flag while playing Nazi marching songs
to protest a $10,000 reward offered by Nazi hunters for information
on war criminals, a newspaper reported July 29.
Saulius Ozelis, a member of the municipal council in the western city of Taurage,
drove around town for half an hour on July 28 playing Nazi
marching songs loudly on his car stereo before setting the
flag on fire, according to the daily Lietuvos rytas.
Several dozen members of Ozelis' far-right
Lithuanian Freedom Union attended the action.
Ozelis told the newspaper he was protesting against an offer
made earlier this month by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to
pay a reward of $10,000 for information about Nazi criminals.
(Agence France Presse).
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