A sign reading "Stop!" in German and Polish is seen at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. (REUTERS)
A young Israeli man was reportedly arrested Wednesday after a tour guide caught him urinating at a memorial to the victims of a Nazi death camp in Poland.
The man, identified only as 19-year-old Zeev K., was caught peeing on the steps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the New York Daily News reported, citing local Polish media.
Polish authorities said the man admitted to the act and he was released. The man was fined $1,500, according to the Daily News.
Authorities did not give a motive.
Pawel Sawicki, a spokesman for the memorial, told Gazeta Krakowska that he couldn’t remember a similar incident taking place.
A group of anti-war activists last year slaughtered a sheep, stripped naked and chained themselves to the gate of the memorial, according to Haaretz. The group reportedly received a prison sentence for the act.
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