Article 6K894 Police investigate reports patrons performed Nazi salute in Melbourne cinema

Police investigate reports patrons performed Nazi salute in Melbourne cinema

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Stephanie Convery
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Cinema Nova spokesperson says group of four men and one woman were vocalising hate speech to create a scene inside the auditorium'

Police are investigating reports that a group of patrons performed Nazi salutes and made racist comments during a screening of an Oscar-winning Holocaust film at a Melbourne cinema on Saturday night.

The patrons were attending a screening of The Zone of Interest, a German-language adaptation of the Martin Amis novel, a fictionalised account of the real-life Nazi commandant, Rudolf Hoss, and his family, who lived in a villa at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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