{"id":516670,"date":"2026-03-03T20:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516670\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:23:15","slug":"melbourne-airport-worker-in-court-accused-of-nazi-salute-to-jewish-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516670\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Airport worker in court accused of Nazi salute to Jewish kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An airport worker has faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/courts\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"court\">court<\/a> over claims he performed a Nazi salute to a group of Jewish schoolchildren.Oscar Diaz Ysuiza, 23, faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> Magistrates Court today, about a month after federal police charged him over an incident at Melbourne airport.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Federal Police will allege the Greenvale man performed a Nazi salute, which was directed towards a group of Jewish school-aged children, inside the airport terminal on February 2.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7d2b090e-b688-4334-ab8d-22513deb9756.jpeg\"   alt=\"Melbourne Airport generic.\"\/>Oscar Diaz Ysuiza, 23, faced Melbourne Magistrates Court today, about a month after federal police charged him over an incident at Melbourne airport. (Getty images)<\/p>\n<p>Ysuiza allegedly left the airport shortly after and the incident was reported to the AFP.<\/p>\n<p>AFP members reviewed CCTV and interviewed witnesses to identify Ysuiza, before visiting him at a Greenvale home, in Melbourne&#8217;s north, later that day.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified he was an airport employee and found that he held an Aviation Security Identification Card, AFP said.<\/p>\n<p>Ysuiza was charged on summons with one count of making a Nazi gesture in a public place in circumstances where doing so is likely to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate.<\/p>\n<p>The offence carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Ysuiza sat behind his legal aid lawyer as upcoming court dates were set, and left the court to awaiting media where he covered his face with a cap.<\/p>\n<p>He will return to court on May 26 for a committal mention.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An airport worker has faced court over claims he performed a Nazi salute to a group of Jewish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-516670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516670","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=516670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}