A 34-year-old man who lived and worked in the Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) region in western Poland is also banned from returning to Poland and the Schengen area for five years.
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The man was detained by museum security staff in mid-July when he posed for photos and made a prohibited gesture while visiting the memorial.
Later, the police charged him with “public promotion of Nazism” and desecration of a site dedicated to Holocaust victims, reports “TVP World”.
On Wednesday, the police handed the Colombian over to the Krakow border guards. They decided to deport him from the country, citing public order and security reasons.
Justyna Drożdż, a representative of the Krakow border guard department, said that the court ordered the man to be temporarily housed in a foreigner detention center in the southeastern Polish city of Przemyśl until the deportation is carried out.
Under Polish law, public promotion of Nazi, fascist, communist, or other totalitarian ideologies can result in a fine, restriction of liberty, or up to two years imprisonment.
Investigators confiscated the mobile phone used to take the photos as evidence. The man also admitted to the offense and agreed to pay a fine of 2,000 Polish zlotys (about 460 euros).
The Auschwitz-Birkenau complex was established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp.
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More than 1.1 million people were killed there, most of them Jews.
