Germany right to remind tourists it has no tolerance for banned symbols

TWO CHINESE MEN, aged 36 and 49, were arrested by local police for taking photos of each other making a Nazi salute outside the Reichstag, seat of the lower house of Parliament, in Berlin - an illegal act under German laws. Beijing News commented on Monday:

The consequences following the two men's illegal behavior in the front of a German historic building came as a shock to some Chinese netizens, who argued a little tolerance should have been exercised in the handling of the incident.

However, what the two men did was more than taking cellphone pictures of each other. They will know what salute they were making, even if, as they claim, they were unaware of the German laws prohibiting the use of certain symbols and gestures.