{"id":143984,"date":"2025-09-15T03:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143984\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T03:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:06:08","slug":"man-charged-with-giving-nazi-salute-at-brisbane-lions-v-gold-coast-suns-afl-game-at-the-gabba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143984\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with giving Nazi salute at Brisbane Lions v Gold Coast Suns AFL game at the Gabba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has been handed a lifetime ban from the AFL after being charged with giving a Nazi salute at the semifinal in Brisbane on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Queensland Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Mark Kelly said officers received reports that a man in the crowd, believed to be a ticket holder, made a Nazi salute at the Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast Suns game at the Gabba.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 39-year-old Pratten man has been charged with one count of public display of giving a Nazi salute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;It is really important that people do report these kinds of behaviours and that is what we are seeking from the community,&#8221; Acting Deputy Commissioner Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;If you see something that&#8217;s not right, let us know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon said the lifetime ban showed &#8220;how we feel about it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The man is expected to appear before the Brisbane Magistrates Court on September 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been handed a lifetime ban from the AFL after being charged with giving a Nazi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[638,43,44,94,701,5338,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-143984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-afl","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-the-gabba","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}