Swastika-fountain discovers with Google Earth
For 27 year stands there for the city hall in the Belgian Meuse Malines a fountain in the form of a swastika. Nobody had the through - till someone the fountain looked at on Google Earth (click on plate linksboven), the free program of Google with which the earths in satellite image am to be looked at.
The designer of the fountain, Robert Tachelet, is self of no badly conscious. “Write on that I totally behind the design want to stand. I am on it apetrots. And yes, how you can the guessing: I am no Nazi let”, as he the Belgian paper The Last New knowledge.
The mayor has promises grow to let the fountain, as soon as the bouwvakvakantie ended is. According to The Last News gets the fountain the form of a clover celebrate.
The remarkable form, that to see is only from the air and to not to recognize is from the ground, is no coincidence. “The swastika is no monopoly of the Nazis. It is an universal zonnesymbool”, according to Tachelet.
He is not it once with the decision of the mayor. “The Hindus use it, the old Greeks used it. Why may we not use it then” Did because the Germans take out it stupidities with” I am not the that with once.''
He emphasizes that the original designs in 1979 by the then mayor have been approved. These self says to remind however nothing of the design.