00:02Sydney man Ian Minus has escaped the maximum penalty for this offence which is 12 months in
00:07prison for wearing a t-shirt with a swastika on it outside the Royal Commission into anti-semitism
00:14and social cohesion hearings in Sydney. Our cameras captured the 68 year old man in May
00:20outside the hearings wearing the t-shirt and being spoken to by police and eventually moved on.
00:26The t-shirt had the words anti-semitism proud to be accused speak up which he told media at the
00:33time
00:33he was proud to wear and wore often and he was standing outside the commission on the day survivors
00:39of the Bondi terror attack were inside giving evidence. Ian Minus pleaded guilty to one count
00:45of displaying a Nazi symbol without reasonable excuse in June and today received a conviction
00:51and a fine of $1,500. In the local court in Sydney today his lawyers handed up an apology letter
00:58which he said detailed his understanding since the offence about the harm that the symbol causes
01:04the Jewish community. The chief judge of the local court accepted Mr Minus was remorseful
01:09and said that he thought the offence was an act of unsophisticated protest because of his concerns
01:15about the war in Gaza and that Mr Minus wasn't genuinely anti-semitic. The court heard that Mr Minus
01:22has become estranged from members of his family because of this incident and the surrounding
01:27media attention and the judge thought that he was very unlikely to re-offend.
01:33The end.
01:34We'll be right.
01:34For more information visit www.fema.org
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