It is an insult to an official in office
We don’t see them very often anymore, but every time we see someone with an ACAB sticker, sweater or even tattoo we ask ourselves: who do these people call when theirs is broken into? How principled are they when they really need the police? For those who don’t know what this is about: ACAB does not stand for Acht Cola Acht Bier, but for All Cops Are Bastards. We’re not going to translate it for you. The police clarified once again today that a sticker with ACAB on a car is punishable.
Using the abbreviation, but also the number combination 1312 (just look at the alphabet), is an insult to an official in office. There is simply a fine in the Netherlands. Quite a few football fans have already been ticketed at important matches that called the abbreviation to the police. The police of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen arrested someone this week with the letters on his sweater and warns again on Instagram that this abbreviation is illegal, even as a sticker on a car.
‘We don’t come to them often like this well prepared against. The sweater of this detainee has been seized for destruction. Wearing clothing with the abbreviation ACAB, a car sticker with this abbreviation, a DM or other writing falls under insulting an official in office and is punishable,” the police of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen reports on Instagram. We also suspect that your car will not be destroyed immediately, but that you will have to scratch the sticker off.
Police: ‘Sticker with ACAB on car is punishable’
