AN apparent Nazi symbol has appeared on a Jubilee float in London, prompting anger and confusion.
A Northern Soul-themed vehicle making its way through the Queen’s Jubilee parade had a large sticker attached to it that shows Z-like lines on the outside of a circle with triangular shapes pointing to the middle.
The image looks very similar to that of the Black Sun, a Nazi symbol and sun wheel which consists of 12 radial sig runes.
People on social media reacted with shock and confusion to the symbol.
One person tweeted: "Why’s the black sun on the northern soul float at the jubilee parade?"
Why’s the black sun on the northern soul float at the jubilee parade…. pic.twitter.com/6Kba0kxeEC
— sb (@samblacktweets) June 5, 2022
Richard Cubitt said: "Deeply concerning that this is happening openly at the Jubilee parade. Who invited them?"
User Olive replied: "Even if this was a mistake, this makes me embarrassed to be a UK citizen."
Gary Dunion added: "A Nazi symbol on a float supposedly recognising an explicitly anti-racist youth subculture. What was it the commentators have been saying on a loop all weekend? 'Britain does this kind of thing so well'?"
Many suggested the symbol was simply a mistake by organisers, saying they may have been looking for the logo of a former Manchester nightclub Twisted Wheel.
So are we not gonna talk about the Northern Soul float with the Nazi symbol, or? pic.twitter.com/MFhcUFt94y
— Max Kashevsky (@MaxKashevsky) June 5, 2022
The Northern Soul venue's logo shows a wheel inside a rose.
Northern Soul was a music and dance movement which emerged in Northern England and the Midlands from the Mod scene, which evolved out of the soul genre in America.
The National found one royalty-free-images site included a Black-Sun-style symbol in amongst a series of graphics listed under "Northern Soul".
