Britain - Holocaust denier denied entry to UK

Veteran German Holocaust denier Manfred Roeder was sent back to Germany when he tried to enter Britain on Sunday.

Roeder, 78, arrived at Heathrow on a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt and was questioned for several hours by two plain-clothes detectives before being put on a plane and sent back to Germany. Reports said he was intending to visit old comrades in Britain.

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson told the JC: “A 78-year-old German man was detained by police at Heathrow under the Terrorism Act. Subsequently, he was refused entry and returned to Germany.”

In 1982 Roeder was jailed for 13 years — but released after eight — in Germany for involvement in the firebombing of refugee hostels two years before, in which two Vietnamese refugees died.

In 1997, the BBC programme Panorama caused a major scandal in Germany when it revealed that Roeder had addressed the German military’s officer academy in Hamburg. The exposé led to the sacking of the academy’s commanding officer.

Roeder served 21 months of a two-year sentence imposed in 1999 for denying the Holocaust during a speech when standing as a National Party candidate in an election. He also appeared in court in Frankfurt in 2000, charged with having sent a letter to all German MPs accusing them of having committed “genocide against their own flesh and blood”, and calling for the re-establishment of the Third Reich.

CST spokesman Mark Gardner congratulated the authorities for their prompt action, saying: “This man is a real veteran Nazi with a track record of organised violence and Holocaust denial. He should not be welcome here.”

Source: www.thejc.com

Date: Sep 21, 2007

By Leon Symons

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