German politician appeals sentence over Nazi & Auschwitz tattoos, gets harsher punishment

‘A German politician who landed in hot water after being caught with tattoos of a Nazi slogan and the notorious Auschwitz death camp has appealed his sentence – but instead of receiving a lesser punishment, he received a more severe one.
Far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) politician Marcel Zech, 28, received an eight-month jail sentence at a district court in Neuruppin on Monday, after being found guilty of public incitement caused by his tattoos of a Nazi slogan and Auschwitz.
The ruling, passed down during Zech’s appeal, is harsher than the six-month suspended sentence originally given to the politician in December 2015.’
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