Colombian police cadets held a ceremony in honor of the German government, in which they wore Nazi uniforms, no less.
During a day of recognition and cultural exchange with Germany, the cadets made mustaches in the style of Adolf Hitler and dressed in the clothes of the Nazi Wehrmacht and the SS.
In addition, the students also displayed airplanes with the symbols of the Luftwaffe and other weapons that were decorated with the symbols of the Nazi regime.
Ironically, the person who posted the photos was the state police themselves, who posted on the official Twitter account about the embarrassing incident.
A text attached to the photos states that the cadets, who study at the Simon Bolivar Police Academy in the city of Tula, "held a cultural exchange day with Germany and through this content we strengthen and enrich the knowledge of our students."
As expected, the Israeli and German embassies jointly issued a statement of condemnation expressing "total rejection of any recognition or understanding of the Nazi regime."
Every controversy has provoked the event in the last hours of the Simón Bolívar Police Department in Tuluá.
The uniforms were dismissed by Adolf Hitler, alluding to Nazism during the week of internationalization.
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The messages of condemnation and outrage that greatly embarrassed the regime drew a special apology from Colombian President Ivan Duka, who made it clear on Twitter that "any acceptance or expression of the Nazi regime is not acceptable at all. I condemn any use of the regime symbols responsible for the murder of more than six million people."
The Ministry of Defense, which is under the authority of the State Police, also issued an unusual apology, stating that "this conduct is not acceptable and does not come under any understanding of the police."
After the incident, the authorities fired the commander of the academy, hoping that in doing so the public outrage over the police, which is not popular in the country anyway, would be forgotten.