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St Pauli's Totenkopf which, along with the club, was included in British counter-terror guidance
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BRITISH fans and players of German second-tier side St Pauli have hit back at British counter-terrorism police after the club’s Totenkopf symbol was included on a document distributed to raise awareness of potential terror groups.
The document, dated to June 2019, was distributed to medical staff, teachers and safeguarding children’s boards across England to help identify imagery which may be linked to harmful terror groups.
As reported in the Morning Star on Saturday, along with left-wing groups such as Greenpeace and the Communist Party of Britain, it also includes the fascist Britain First, the English Defence League and white-supremacist groups with imagery including swastikas, the nazi Iron Eagle symbol and the logo of White Power Worldwide.
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