‘Nazi outfits’ at Orange Lodge event

Police have launched an investigation into images showing people wearing Nazi Halloween outfits at an Orange Lodge.

Officers have received pictures of people dressed in offensive costumes at Airdrie District Orange Hall and Social Club.

The images, which were on Facebook but have since been removed, including a man dressed as Hitler giving a Nazi salute posing with children wearing a yellow star, which Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi Germany. Another showed a man dressed as the Pope with a noose around his neck, while a further picdonald ture showed two men holding a toy wearing a Celtic strip between them at crotch level.

The photographs were published on the Whinhall True Blues Flute Band Facebook page and reportedly date from 2010 and 2013.