German prince allegedly gives mock Nazi salute

[Fenris]

BERLIN -- Prince Ernst August of Hanover, the controversy-prone husband of Caroline of Monaco, allegedly gave the stiff-arm Hitler salute to an airport security guard during an argument, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The security guard told police the dispute erupted when the prince resisted being checked before boarding a plane Nov. 24 at Hanover's Langenhagen airport, prosecutors in the city said.

Ernst August allegedly shouted insults, then raised his arm in a Nazi salute, said a prosecutors' spokesman, Thomas Klinge.

He said prosecutors were considering whether to charge the prince with verbally abusing the security agent and making an outlawed Nazi gesture.

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Germany%20Rowdy%20Royal

[JohnKleeb]

1. He shouldn't even be a prince

death to the monarchy! :D

[Fenris]

3. Actually, after reading the rest of the article

I really agree with you. What an awful human.

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On Wednesday, the prince lost a bid to regain properties taken from his family under the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany at the end of World War II.

He was among two plaintiffs whose case was thrown out by Germany's supreme court, part of a wider battle since German reunification by people who lost family property in the Soviet zone between 1945 and 1949.

Ernst August lays claim to several castles, artworks, forests and land with an estimated value of more than $133 million.

The Federal Constitutional Court refused to reverse the expropriations, saying the government had done enough by offering to compensate the victims.

[JohnKleeb]

4. monarchies generally suck ass

yeah he sounds like a crook. He should be damn lucky the Soviets didn't take him away or destroy his pracious castle.

[Kellanved]

5. technically he isn't

Germany and Lower Saxony both are Republics (unlike the UK, Belgium,...), his "title" is just part of his name. It is a fancy soap-opera without any base in real life.


Edit:
Prinz Ernst Haugust - mit Schirm-Charme auf die Melone...

[JohnKleeb]

6. so he's just a rich heir

god this is one of the things I hate about society. Thanks for the explanation.

[Deja Q]

2. Big deal. The last 4 years has seen * doing the same thing all the time.

That's news? :shrug:

[barb162]

7. he sounds like a really arrogant, ignorant POS

let him sit in jail a few days.

[Endangered Specie]

8. The security guard then should have...

waxed him with a Walther PPK 7.65mm (the gun Hitler shot himself with) ;)