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German city bans ‘silent fox’ gesture in schools over similarity to far-right sign
A city in northern Germany has become the first to issue an all-out ban on the use of a hand gesture used to encourage silence in the classroom because of its close resemblance to a far-right Turkish gesture. The “silent fox” gesture – where the hand is …