Teenager charged over Nazi salute with Hitler moustache outside Scottish synagogue

A sixteen-year-old pupil at a top school who allegedly drew a Hitler moustache above his lip and performed a Nazi salute outside a synagogue near Glasgow has been charged by police.

There is reportedly a video of the incident, which began circulating on social media on 13th September, and within days the boy has been identified and charged,

The boy allegedly made the antisemitic gesture outside Giffnock Shul, the largest synagogue in Scotland, which also hosts numerous communal organisations.

A spokesperson for Police Scotland said: “A sixteen-year-old boy has been charged and is the subject of a report to the Procurator Fiscal and the Scottish Children’s Reporters Administration in connection with the incident.”

It is a sad reflection of the state of education that a schoolboy could find amusement in mimicking Adolf Hitler, but the local police should be applauded for reacting so swiftly, signalling that such behaviour will not be tolerated.