December 26, 2017 (RT) Logos on the seats in new
armored vehicles acquired by the police Special Forces unit in the German land
of Saxony have provoked a wave of indignation on social media, as they appear
to be reminiscent of a Nazi emblem. The Saxony Special Forces (SEK), a unit
particularly tasked with conducting anti-terrorist operations in the region,
received its first new armored vehicles, called “Survivor R,” on Friday.
The 17-ton cars have enough armor to withstand a machine-gun assault and even
an explosion and can carry up to 10 officers.
However, it is not the
vehicle’s combat characteristics that have attracted public attention. The
armored cars sparked widespread criticism on social media due to the fact that
the backs of its seats were adorned with a logo that was strikingly similar to
what looked like a Nazi emblem.
“What a beautiful logo!” one person wrote sarcastically in a Twitter post featuring a photo of the
unfortunate design. He then added that it looks “almost like [the one] from
the older [Nazi] times” and “lacks only an eagle and a swastika.”
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