German Court Fines Bishop Williamson 12,000 Euros for Denying Holocaust
Richard Williamson, the British bishop who caused an international by denying the Holocaust in a media interview last year, has been fined €12,000 by a German court for his comments. His lawyer has indicated he will contest the ruling.
A German court has fined British bishop Richard Williamson €12,000 ($17,800) for denying the Holocaust in an interview he gave to Swedish television last year that caused outrage around the world.
The Regensburg district court said Williamson, a member of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), an ultra-traditionalist Catholic splinter group, was being fined for incitement and that he had two weeks to appeal against the ruling.
Williamson’s German lawyer, Matthias Lossmann, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper that Williamson had been ordered to pay €12,000. The report said Williamson looks set to fight the ruling. “There are certain things that must be contested,” it quoted Lossmann as saying.
The court has jurisdiction because Willamson gave the interview in Germany, where denying the Holocaust is a crime. Speaking on the sidelines of a consecration ceremony in the town of Zaitzkofen, the bishop had claimed that historical evidence indicated there were no gas chambers during the Nazi period, and that 200,000 to 300,000 Jews had been murdered, not the figure of 6 million generally accepted by historians.
Vatican Talks
Meanwhile, the Vatican began talks on Monday with the SSPX with the aim of re-integrating it fully into the Church. Vatican officials and SSPX leaders discussed “doctrinal differences still outstanding” between the group and Rome, a Vatican statement said.
The traditionalists reject many of the reforms of the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council, which modernized the Catholic Church. The SSPX has several hundred thousand members and insists that it represents the true faith.
Last January German Pope Benedict XI tried to start bringing SSPX back into the fold by lifting the excommunications of four of its bishops, including Williamson. That decision coincided with reports about Williamson’s comments on the Holocaust and prompted international criticism of the pope.
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Dear Bishoip Williamson, as a Roman Catholic and a National Socialist I support you and your comments about the homokamu lies.
Jews were inappriopately high in numbers in communist countries were thousands of priests, monks and nuns were tortured and butchered by jewish madmen. If there was a holocaust, that is the Christian Holocaust and not the jewish.
Jews were saved in those concentration camps, looked fat and healthy, while young German, Hungarian, Italian, Croatian and other European soldiers died, were maimed and captured by judeo-madmen in the freezing cold of Siberia and elsewehere.
The “german” court is the puppet of the terorist-state of israel and other zionist punks. They fear the truth , they fear the freedom, because the Truth sets us free!
DEaTH TO HOLOHOAX.
Heil Hitler!