Holocaust-denying bishop loses case against German conviction

31.01.2019

Richard Williamson, who denied the use of Nazi Germany's gas chambers, argued his right to free speech was violated. But the European Court of Human Rights described his sentence as "very lenient."

A Holocaust-denying former bishop from an ultra-traditionalist Catholic splinter group on Thursday lost a European rights case against a conviction in Germany.

Richard Williamson had been fined €1,800 ($2,066) for denying there were gas chambers in Nazi Germany's death camps in a 2008 interview with Swedish television carried out in Germany.

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[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfND5_AF1nQ"]Richard Williamson [/ame]