Protest a ‘disgrace’
A LONE protestor draped in a German flag shouting “German lives matter” and “Germany should have won” disrupted the Anzac Day service in Murwillumbah.
Several upset people in the crowd shouted at the woman to “go home”, while one veteran yelled “you’re a disgrace”.
Parade marshall and Murwillumbah RSL member Chris Christostomos said: “The best thing you can do with those kinds of people is just to ignore them.”
The protest was just a blip on the radar for what was otherwise a successful Anzac Day service. Thousands gathered along the streets of Murwillumbah to pay tribute to past and present veterans with an Anzac Day march led by students of Murwillumbah High School and the marching band of Mount Saint Patrick College.
Murwillumbah High School captain Tahnee English said the Anzac spirit was “the very essence of our nation”.
“But it is also about sadness and grief, with young lives cut short and dreams left unfulfilled, it is about the horror and carnage of war,” she said.