Nathan Bull, 24, was convicted of performing a prohibited Nazi salute after he and others disrupted a screening of The Zone of Interest at Cinema Nova in Melbourne, Australia on March 9, 2024.

Witnesses said the group laughed during scenes depicting Holocaust victims, claimed the Holocaust never happened, praised Adolf Hitler and performed Nazi salutes.

Representing himself, Bull told the court he relied on welfare payments and struggled to find work.

“It is quite difficult to get a job, obviously, because of who I am,” he said.

“They can just Google me and they don’t want the issues that it comes with being pulled up by communists, saying they have a Nazi working for them or the police showing up.”

Magistrate Stella Stuthridge said Bull’s ongoing court cases and political views had had a “dramatic impact on his employability” and ruled that a conviction would only worsen those difficulties.

She sentenced him to a six-month community corrections order with 125 hours of unpaid work but recorded no conviction. Police had argued that the seriousness of the offence warranted one.