NEWS BULLETIN

Belgian revisionist arrested

NSNS Thursday, 4 August 2005

ANTWERP—Veteran revisionist publicist Siegfried Verbeke was arrested yesterday while boarding a plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport and might be extradited to Germany for trial.

A German judge issued an international arrest warrant against Verbeke late last year, because the publicist had expressed skepticism over the Internet that "the Nazis" actually killed six million Jews during World War II.

Germany asked Belgium to extradite Verbeke, but a Belgian judge refused the request on the grounds that the Flemish dissident was already being prosecuted by authorities in that country.

Verbeke was subsequently convicted of "racism" and "negationism"—i.e., questioning the The Holocaust® blood libel. An appeals court in Antwerp sentenced him to a maximum one year in prison and a 2,500 euro (approximately $3,000) fine. In addition his civil rights were revoked for 10 years.

The 63-year-old Verbeke has been head of the Free Historical Research Center (VHO) since 1983. The center publishes books exposing the Six Million myth, which Verbeke has used as a litmus test of actual free speech in Europe.

Verbeke's family was active in support of a New Order in Europe during the Second World War.