Siegfried Verbeke

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Siegfried Verbeke (born June 21, 1941,

Holocaust denier
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History

Verbeke became a public figure in 1977 when, together with the later

Vlaamse Militanten Orde (Flemish Militants Order), an organisation that became notorious for its attacks on immigrants, Walloons, and socialists. The government began dismantling the organisation in 1981 and it had ceased to exist by the 1990s.[citation needed
]

At the beginning of the 1990s, Verbeke distributed pamphlets in the Netherlands to people with presumed Jewish names. In 1993, a Belgian court sentenced Verbeke to a one-year suspended prison term for distributing pamphlets belittling the Holocaust. Verbeke was also stripped of his civil rights for 10 years (his active and passive right to vote). The next year Verbeke circulated a booklet challenging what the authors called "the official version of the Holocaust."[citation needed]

Two years later, in 1995, he hit the headlines again by trying to get political asylum in the Netherlands because he was banned from distributing his material in Belgium.[citation needed]

In 1998, criminal proceedings were launched against Verbeke by the public prosecution of

Diary of Anne Frank. The next year, Belgian Minister for Culture Bert Anciaux demanded that all Belgian libraries would remove any works by Verbeke from the shelves.[citation needed
]

In 2004, he volunteered to be exposed to Zyklon B, the poison used in the gas chambers, as an application for the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge of the James Randi Educational Foundation. His application was rejected.[1]

In 2004, Verbeke was convicted in Belgium of

Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam under an international arrest warrant issued in Germany where he was wanted for Holocaust denial and writing internet articles on the subject. He was sentenced to 9 months in prison, and released on May 5, 2006.[citation needed
]

On December 15, 2006, he was again arrested on the basis of an arrest warrant from the Court of Appeal in Antwerp, issued April 14, 2005, and was subsequently incarcerated in Belgium.[citation needed]

In June 2008 he was fined €25,000 and sentenced with Vincent Reynouard to one year in prison for denialism.[2]

References

  1. ^ [1] Archived 2012-02-29 at the Wayback Machine JREF Forum, Siegfried Verbeke application
  2. ^ Prison ferme pour deux négationnistes, Le Soir, 20 June 2008
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