Holocaust revisionist seized in London
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October 2, 4:36 pm
Holocaust revisionist seized in London
An Australian Holocaust revisionist has been arrested in London for posting online materials denying mass killings of Jews in World War II. Gerald Frederick Toben, a founder and director of the Holocaust denial Adelaide Institute, was arrested at Heathrow Airport, Australia's ABC Radio reported. The 64-year-old former school teacher was refused bail in London's Westminster Magistrate's court and is to appear again on Friday for an extradition hearing. Toben, who is wanted by the District Court in Mannheim, Germany, was arrested under a European Union arrest warrant over publishing material on the internet of “an anti-Semitic and/or revisionist nature." Remanded in custody until the Friday's session, he condemned his trial as an insult and "a done deal between Britain and Germany." Questioning the Holocaust is an offense in Germany where the deniers could face a jail term of up to five years. Toben objected to the terms of the warrant and called an extradition order against Schengen agreement. "This is an abuse of process. This is a legal ambush. It's not British law where the individual still has freedoms," he told the court. "The Schengen agreement protected me. Britain has not the Holocaust denier laws that Germany has so they are slipping [this offence] in as a race hatred and cyber crime," he added. In 1999, Toben was sentenced to seven months in jail in Germany when he was seized en route from the US to Dubai. He has also served an 11-month sentence in Austria for his comments on what the Jewish society holds as gospel truth. In 2006, Toben was a speaker at a two-day conference in Tehran which questioned the claims of Nazis' war crimes in the Second World War and was also attended by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Born in Germany in June 1944, Toben is a PhD holder from the University of Stuttgart and has authored eight books.
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