A man was arrested after defacing a war memorial dedicated to fallen Soviet soldiers in Berlin by painting swastikas on the statues. <br /><br />The man, believed to be 37, can be seen daubing several red swastikas on statues at the Treptower Memorial Park on October 6.<br /><br />Some tourists confronted the man who threatened them. <br /><br />The filmer commented: "I heard the guy screaming he was 37-years-old and that he was just doing art.<br /><br />"It took half an hour for the police to arrive and arrest him.<br /><br />"He was also throwing bananas to the statues. It seemed like he was waiting to get arrested. "<br /><br />This took place the day after a small demonstration by Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident (PEGIDA), a radical right-wing German group. <br /><br />Drawing or presenting swastikas or other Nazi iconography is illegal in Germany, and the man was reported to the police.
