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Iris Sprangere, the senator for the interior of the federal state of Berlin, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper on Monday that if the use of the “Z” symbol was found to be in the context of war, it would be punishable.
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She referred to Article 140 of the German Criminal Code, which criminalized the justification of certain crimes. Offenders can be fined or imprisoned for up to three years.
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The states of Lower Saxony and Bavaria also announced on Friday that they would criminalize the use of the “Z” symbol.
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The North Rhine-Westphalia Regional Parliament has supported a ban on this symbol.
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Bavaria has warned that the use of the “Z” symbol is equated with a swastika and that there are legal consequences for displaying it.
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Most of Russia’s armor used in the war against Ukraine is marked with the capital letters Z and V of the Latin alphabet, and the “Z” in particular has now become a symbol of Russian imperial networks used by both Moscow’s propaganda and its aggression supporters.
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