Berlin police chief sorry for officers’ push-ups at Holocaust memorial

A woman with a red umbrella visits the memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe in central Berlin, Germany (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Berlin’s police chief has apologised for an incident in which officers were pictured practising push-ups on a part of the German capital’s memorial to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust.

Pictures published by Berlin’s BZ tabloid showed uniformed policemen leaning on one of the slabs that makes up the Holocaust memorial to practise push-ups.