Far-right extremist Jacob Hersant has been jailed for one month after losing an appeal against his Nazi salute conviction. The 26-year-old looked straight ahead as Victorian county court judge Simon Moglia re-sentenced him on Wednesday for the “contemptuous” offending. Hersant was the first Australian handed a prison sentence over the offence in November 2024, but he immediately appealed against his one-month jail term and conviction in the county court. At a three-day appeal hearing, he argued he did not perform the Nazi salute and, even if he did, the charge was constitutionally invalid. But Moglia disagreed, and in December found...
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