Fury at Nazi police slur by activists
POLICE are probing an ‘appalling’ film that compares officers protecting a shale gas site to Nazi SS guards.
The video created by environmentalists intercuts footage of anti-fracking protesters with scenes from the Oscar-winning film Schindler’s List.
In one of the most offensive scenes, a young Jewish woman is shot in the head by an SS officer. The woman’s final words are dubbed over with the voice of anti-fracking protester and Green Party election candidate Tina Rothery, who says: ‘I am acting in the self-defence of my community.’
The video, entitled Tina’s List, was posted on an anti-fracking website earlier this month. It features footage of a protest at Fylde, near Blackpool in Lancashire. The video has since been taken down.
Marie van der Zyl, vice-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: ‘This video beggars belief. The comparisons made to Nazis and the concentration camps belittle the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust.’ Clive Grunshaw, Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner, said: ‘Police officers are there doing their job. They are caught in the middle between the protesters and the business. I think it is disgraceful they are facing this sort of intimidation.’ Miss Rothery said yesterday she had nothing to do with the film. The 54-year-old grandmother, who is standing for the Greens in Blackpool and Fylde, said: ‘It is not something I would do in a million years. I respect that the police have a job to play in society. What I don’t respect is the role they are being forced to play in Lancashire.’ York-based activist Dave Marris, who made the video, said: ‘I can’t see anything offensive.’