"Move on, Jews! Your home is at Auschwitz! Send you to the gas (chamber)!" These are comments that you might expect to hear in 1940s Europe, but in 2014? Apparently yes, according to a Polish municipal prosecutor in Poznan, who decided this week that chants by football fans are not criminal offenses. The incident, which happened during a Polish league game between Lech Poznan and Widzew Lodz on September 29, 2013, has sparked debate over the country's attitude towards anti-Semitism. "This case is being discussed a lot in Poland and rightly causing critique of the system and its decision," Polish football writer Michal Zachodny told CNN.
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Polish municipal officer rules that chants by Lech Poznan supporters not anti-Semitic
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Club defends fans and says it is working to eradicate problem
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Anti-Semitism in Polish football a widespread problem
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Chanting condemned by European Jewish Congress
"The irony in some of these chants is that the perpetrators sometimes have @placeholder players within their teams.
"I wouldn't say that all @placeholder fans are anti-Semitic or that this is a common situation because it's not," added Zachodny.