A court employee in Tatarstan was fined for the Nein cat meme, an adaptation of the swastika cat, which he posted on VK 12 years ago.
The video received 22 views, and the court recognized support for the war as a mitigating circumstance.
On November 5, the Sremanovsky District Court in Tatarstan fined the secretary of the meeting of the Akhitovsky District Court one thousand rubles for public display of Nazi symbols, Dozhd noted. The reason was a 30-second video the man added to his page in 2014. The sentence is described as first showing Hitler in front of a map with swastikas, and then an animated cat with a swastika. Judging by this description, we're talking about a remake of the It's a Cat meme, popular in the early 2010s, where a pixelated cat flies through space and leaves a rainbow trail behind. The video received 22 views.
In court, the man explained that the video is humorous and does not intend to promote Nazi symbols. He deleted the video and said he supported the country's "special military operation". The judge recognized this as a mitigating circumstance, along with an admission of guilt and repentance, and imposed a fine of one thousand rubles.