Canadian police treating Nazi monument as war memorial – media
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A journalist is facing prison time for allegedly defacing a statue to Ukrainian Nazi collaborators at a cemetery in Alberta
Police and prosecutors in the Canadian province of Alberta have classed a monument to Ukrainian veterans who fought for Nazi Germany as a protected “war memorial,” for the purpose of charging a journalist who allegedly defaced it, according to news website The Maple.
The Canadian government has previously been accused by Russia of protecting Nazi war criminals who emigrated to the country after WWII.
Police in the city of Edmonton in the province of Alberta claim that journalist Duncan Kinney vandalized the structure in St. Michael’s Cemetery. The monument honoring Ukrainian veterans of the SS “1st Galician Division” was sprayed with the words “Nazi Monument 14th Waffen SS” in August 2021.
The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS consisted mostly of Western Ukrainians, and was implicated in war crimes. Many of its members immigrated to Canada after WWII. Continue…