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01/23/2009: "TV interview sparks Holocaust denial probe"
An interview broadcast on Swedish television this week has caused German prosecutors to launch an investigation against a controversial British bishop suspected of inciting racial hatred.
A spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in the southern city of Regensburg said it had opened an investigation against Richard Williamson, 68, for remarks he made about the Holocaust in an interview broadcast on Sveriges Television (SVT).
"I believe there were no gas chambers... I think that 200,000 to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps but none of them by gas chambers," said Williamson during an interview with SVT.
[ Brave of the bishop to say that. It would be embarrassing to prosecute a bishop for holocaust denial as well, so he may have called the bluff of those who threaten to do so. ]
http://www.thelocal.se/17126/20090123/