PoliticsSamoa leader apologises over Nazi salute in resurfaced 2007 video

Samoa’s Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has apologised after a 2007 video showed him leading about a dozen people in a Nazi salute while saying “Heil Hitler” at a family gathering. He said the words and gesture were inappropriate and could cause offence and hurt, while rejecting Nazism, antisemitism, racism and political extremism.

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