Far-right Scots thug with Hitler tattoo threatened to murder black man in vile racist rant to cops

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A far-right thug who has a tattoo of Adolf Hitler on his arm threatened to murder a black man during a shocking racist rant at police officers.

Salvador Apellaniz, who also sports swastika inkings on his body, told two constables they would "find a black man dead" if he was forced to spend a night in custody after being arrested.The Spanish national also told the officers "I hate blacks" and praised the Nazis during his outburst while waiting in a van outside an Edinburgh police station in November 2022.Apellaniz, 32, denied making the "repugnant" comments and told a jury the officers had "misinterpreted" his words when he stood trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court this week.

But following the evidence the jury took just 30 minutes to return a guilty verdict that Apellaniz had behaved in a threatening or abusive manner by making offensive comments and uttering a threat to kill.PC Jonathan Goldring told the trial Apellaniz had been arrested on a separate matter and had to wait around 60 minutes inside a police van at St Leonard's police station in Edinburgh.The officer said while in the van Apellaniz, from Muirhouse, Edinburgh, had spoken of the good the Wehrmacht - the Nazi armed forces - had done during World War 2.The officer said Apellaniz had also told him: "If I spend one night in here that black guy will be murdered.

You will find a black man dead. I'm a nationalist - I hate the blacks. They came to Spain and f***ed all my women."PC Clare Mitchell said she was "one hundred percent certain" she had heard the comments and when Apellaniz had "showed off" his racist tattoos, she had spotted the portrait of Hitler on his left arm.