Berlin police chief sorry for Holocaust memorial push-ups

BERLIN — Berlin’s constabulary main apologized connected Monday for an incidental successful which officers were pictured practicing push-ups connected a portion of the German capital’s memorial to the 6 cardinal Jews killed successful the Nazi Holocaust.

Pictures published by Berlin’s B.Z. tabloid showed uniformed policemen leaning connected 1 of the slabs that makes up the Holocaust memorial to signifier push-ups. The paper said they were stills from a video seemingly taken by the officers themselves connected a cellphone during a vacation play successful May erstwhile they were deployed to the country due to the fact that of demonstrations.

The memorial, a tract of 2,700 grey factual slabs adjacent the Brandenburg Gate that opened successful 2005, is unfastened astir the timepiece and isn’t surrounded by immoderate barriers. Visitors are expected to refrain from activities specified arsenic moving and jumping from 1 slab to another.

Berlin constabulary main Barbara Slowik said the work would analyse the incidental internally.

“The colleagues’ behaviour disrespects what this memorial stands for and besides offends the representation of those who were murdered,” Slowik said.

The GdP union, which represents constabulary officers, besides apologized and condemned the “tastelessness” of the officers’ actions, adding that determination indispensable beryllium “consequences” for those involved. “The Holocaust memorial is not an escapade playground,” it said.