Argentine Authority Secures Machine Guns To Hitler's Chest Statue Of Nazi Legacy

Weapons to memorabilia of Nazi heritage that were successfully secured. (Source: Argentine Federal Police)

JAKARTA - The Argentine police arrested a man in Buenos Aires who had a large number of Nazi-era weapons decorated with symbols of the Third Reich from the Adolf Hitler regime last month, officials said.

Quoted from the Argentine Federal Police website on December 10, the case was initiated by the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Organizational Crimes (UFECO) led by Dr. Santiago Marquerich in the context of an international investigation called "Operation Nevada" initiated by members of the Bosnian-Herzegovina Federal Police.

Amid investigations, the presence of an Argentine citizen who would be directly involved in a human trafficking network was detected.

Based on information provided by the Office of the Prosecutor's Office that intervened, federal police began field work, establishing the wanted person was in Europe and would arrive in the country in the next few days.

Officers also carried out operations by confirming his arrival at Pistarini Ministro International Airport located in Ezeiza. Arriving there, careful and effective follow-up was carried out that allowed them to ensure they headed to the southern region of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, precisely to a property located in the city of Bernal, where activities related to the smuggling of all types of weapons will be carried out.

Based on preliminary evidence gathered, the Federal Court of the First Level Quilmas ordered the search of the house where the suspect, an Argentine citizen who was old enough, was arrested.

From there, officers secured 43 rifles with pictures of the Nazi eagle, 15 pistols, 5 airs, 1 cross bow, 1 9 mm machine gun with pictures of the Nazis, 2 bullet charging machines, 3,000 detonators, 3.5 kilograms of powder, 3,000 bullets and 2,500 bullet casings of various caliber.

There are also 1 World War II uniform with Nazi symbols, the chest statues of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, a large number of objects related to the Nazi theme, three Indian antelope (Antopecervicapra) trophies, 2 cell phones, and documents related to the case.

For the purposes of the investigation, officers from the Holocaust Museum participated in the procedure, by certifying a large number of objects with Nazi symbols, in violation of Law 23,592, officials from the Department of Environmental Crimes, who determined the illegality of the discovered antip chief and the Department of Weapons and Explosives along with ANMAC examining the seized weapons.

After the Second World War, many Nazi officials, including the famous death camp watchdog Adolf totaling, migrated to Argentina to avoid courts over war crimes, as quoted by Reuters.

Last year, local security forces stormed and closed an Argentine bookstore selling books about Nazism online.