The fire that engulfed a social justice center in Tennessee a week ago led investigators to an 'obscure' anti-Semitic symbol — one that also surfaced in last month's mass shooting in New Zealand, experts say.
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"I was there on Thursday, and no one from our staff recalled seeing it," she said."When I did see it, I was like, 'What is it?'"The News Sentinel published a picture of the symbol — identified by history scholars as belonging to the Iron Guard movement in Romania from the 1920s to ’40s. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday about the discovery or the latest on the investigation, but officials said last weekend that state bomb and arson agents werethat it was investigating to"see if it has any affiliation to any individual or group."WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Pitcavage said the symbol promoted by the movement represents jail bars, and its founder had been imprisoned before his death.
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