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Holocaust-Denying Bishop Faces Hefty Fine
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Bishop Richard Williamson, who plunged the Vatican into crisis earlier this year by denying the Holocaust in a television interview, may face a €12,000 fine. But he told SPIEGEL that he never intended his interview to be broadcast in Germany. Denying the Holocaust can be expensive. That, at least, could be the lesson facing Bishop Richard Williamson, the ultra-conservative Catholic cleric who plunged the Vatican into crisis in January by telling Swedish television that he believed “there were no gas chambers.”
According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Monday, the Swedish television station denies Williamson’s claims that it had agreed only to broadcast the interview in Sweden. more@Spiegel.de
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