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Date: 3/13/06

More Attacks on Defence Team: Zundel Trial Adjourned for At Least Another Month

Dear Free Speech Supporter:

Lady Michele Renouf, noted actress, author and supporter of free speech, attended this month's installment of the trial of German political prisoner and pacifist publisher Ernst Zundel. After a stormy one-day session, March 9, at the court in Mannheim, the trial was adjourned indefinitely, but, at the very least, for another month. The courtroom was packed with Zundel supporters who gave the man who has been a political prisoner in Canada, the U.S. and now Germany enthusiastic and prolonged applause. Much of the hearing involved acrimonious attacks by the Judge Meinerzhagen on defence lawyer Sylvia Stolz. Mr. Zundel's defence team - his own lawyers, as opposed to the state appointed ones - include Austrian lawyer Dr. Schaller, Jurgen Reiger and Miss Stolz. Advisor Horst Mahler, who has had his passport seized lest he travel to Tehran to attend a planned symposium to examine evidence of the "holocaust" is forced to sit, like a bad schoolboy, with the audience.

Most of the day was consumed by arguments between Miss Stolz and Judge . Essentially, the defence wants the State of produce legal proof of the "holocaust" - proof being required in any other proceeding under German law. The judge wants to take judicial notice or recognize the "obviousness" of this event, the historical questioning of which is the nub of the intrepid German publisher's alleged offence. The judge furiously insisted that Miss Stolz cannot be allowed to continue to represent Mr. Zundel as she is too much in support of her client. In most countries, that would be considered laudable," Lady Michele observes tartly. However, even the hint of questioning the state religion of "holocaust" is, itself, a crime.

Lady Michele noted that the judge listened when defence lawyer Rieger spoke, but seemed to ignore or doze when Miss Stolz addressed him. However, on several occasions, he became livid with rage, "got hysterical, leaped up and screamed and left the room for half an hour," Lady Michele reports.

Lady Michele arranged through Mr. Rieger for permission from the judge for her and a Canadian couple of Zundel supporters to visit Mr. Zundel in prison. When they arrived, they learned that there was no translator - a requirement in order to monitor any foreign language visitors. Eventually, only the male Canadian supporter was allowed in, as he could speak some German. Lady Michele had asked that she and the man's wife be allowed to visit, if they agreed not to talk to Mr. Zundel, "as it would please him."

"It would please him" the prison authority sneared and denied the request.

Prison bureaucracies are the same shits everywhere.

Paul Fromm Director CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION

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