Overview

• Police were called around 10:45 p.m. Saturday after a group allegedly gave the Hitler salute and shouted hate slogans at the Niedenstein-Ermetheis fair.
• The six left by car but were stopped in Gudensberg, where officers arrested the suspects without reported incident.
• Authorities identified five men aged 22 to 42 and a 19-year-old woman from Neukirchen, Schrecksbach and Willingshausen.
• Witnesses told police some appeared intoxicated and said one man displayed tattoos including a swastika and SS runes.
• The Kriminalinspektion Staatsschutz of the North Hesse police is conducting further investigations into suspected Volksverhetzung and the use of banned symbols, with formal charges not yet announced.