Actor sentenced to a ‘restorative justice’ trial after banned Nazi salute.
Actor Damien Richardson, who played the lead role Neighbors And Murder in the citywas convicted at Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court yesterday after publicly giving the Nazi salute in September 2024.
In November he was found guilty of deliberately giving a Nazi salute at a National Workers Alliance meeting at the Urban St restaurant when discussing how there was a “war on men” and “Western tradition, Western values”.
The former actor complained about it The era he compared him “to Adolf Hitler” before performing the gesture, which closely resembled a Nazi salute.
The event was also attended by neo-Nazis and streamed live on social media.
The maximum penalty for performing a prohibited salute in Victoria is a $23,000 fine, twelve months’ imprisonment or both.
Magistrate Justin Foster sentenced Richardson to a ‘restorative justice’ trial on Friday.
This includes ten psychological counseling sessions from Sydney, two of which would be done in person, and a day of shadowing a member of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.
Richardson will be required to write an apology to the Australian Jewish community, addressing the harm, fear and intimation of the Nazi salute and the historical and contemporary consequences of anti-Semitism.
He must also undertake museum education, including a visit to the Jewish Museum of Australia and the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.
Richardson, 56, seen at Urban murder, neighbors, Jack Irish And The hard word prior to standing as an independent candidate for the Australian Senate in the 2022 Australian federal election and in the 2022 Victorian state election as a representative of the far-right Freedom Party of Victoria.
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