BERLIN – Fundamentalist bishop Richard Williamson has been fined €6,500 for publicly denying the Holocaust in 2009, a German court spokesman has said.
The British-born bishop (71), who belongs to a controversial Catholic splinter group, Society of Saint Pius X, was yesterday appealing a 2010 fine of €10,000 for telling Swedish TV that no more than 300,000 Jews died in the Holocaust. He also denied in the interview the existence of gas chambers.
His remarks became an embarrassment for the Vatican which readmitted him after a 22-year excommunication only days following the interview. – (Reuters)