The scandal in Colombia for the “pedagogical event” in which the police used Nazi symbols and costumes

The Nazi period representation of Germany what they did in a police school in Colombia it has been repudiated to the highest levels.

On Thursday, the “Simón Bolívar” Police School in the town of Tulua, in the west of the country, carried out a “pedagogical” activity which was intended to be a historical review.

After the National Police released photographs From the activity on their social networks, many in Colombia rejected the way in which the period of Nazi Germany that caused millions of deaths was represented, mainly of the Jewish community in Europe.

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“Any apology to Nazism is unacceptable and I condemn any manifestation that makes use or reference to symbols alluding to those who were responsible for the Jewish Holocaust that took the lives of more than 6 million people. Anti-Semitism has no place in the world, ”he said this Friday. the president of Colombia, Iván Duque.

The condemnation also came from the Directorate of the National Police: “The use of Nazi emblems and the caricature of the police uniform are unacceptable and, therefore, the decision has been taken to remove the director of the school from office.”

Many Colombians also expressed their rejection: “The worst thing is that no one at any time thought that it was a bad idea to honor Nazi Germany as a guest country,” read a message on Twitter that was replicated hundreds of times.

And the embassies of Israel and Germany expressed their “total rejection” of what happened through a statement.

The embassies of Israel and Germany in Colombia express their total rejection of any show of apology for Nazism. pic.twitter.com/2pDcbyCBuo

– Israel in Colombia (@IsraelinCol) November 19, 2021

How did this situation come about?

The Facebook and Twitter accounts of the National Police released on Thursday photos of an activity at the Simón Bolívar school in Tuluá, which they called “Internationalization Week”.

The messages pointed to Germany As the “Guest country”.

Some cadets from the school wore Nazi uniforms, while German flags, symbols such as the swastika, and signs in German such as one that read “History of the Police” were displayed in one room.

However, the messages on social networks were deleted shortly after many Colombians expressed their rejection.

In addition to apologizing, the National Police said that it will strengthen “the supervision of academic activities that under no circumstances can allow this type of mistakes, even if the intention is to find a different way of transmitting knowledge.”

And the school principal was destitute of the position.

Germany was not a “guest country”

Yackeline Navarro, the national director of the Police Schools, explained this Friday that both the pedagogical activity and the writing of the messages on social networks were wrong.

Noted that Germany was by no means a “guest country” Not even his government was contacted to that representation, in addition to the fact that this activity should not have been carried out in that way, he explained to the Caracol Radio station.

“The director of the school, in an absolutely wrong way, carried out an academic activity to illustrate, in a wrong, absurd, erroneous way, that historical moment that was lived at that time [el nazismo]”, He expressed.

“Unfortunately, there was no supervision or control and that is why the decisions were made.”

In a joint statement, the Israeli and German embassies in Colombia expressed “their total rejection of any show of apology for Nazism.”

“Events like this are outrageous and directly offend not only Jews, but also all victims of the Nazi regime and its criminals,” the note said.

They asked reinforce pedagogy in official institutions and in schools in general about the Holocaust.

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