Bye-Bye Zundel - Holocaust Denier to be deported

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Holocaust denier Zundel ordered deported to Germany

Good news from the Supreme Court of Canada....

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Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel faces immediate arrest, prosecution in Germany

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COLIN PERKEL

TORONTO (CP) - Notorious Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel faces immediate arrest and prosecution for spreading hate on his return to Germany, German authorities said Friday.

Zundel, whose deportation from Canada was imminent following a scathing Federal Court decision, is wanted for running afoul of German laws against denying the Holocaust.

"He will be picked up immediately and then arrested," a German official who requested anonymity said Friday.

"If there is an arrest warrant, then we have to prosecute if he's in our jurisdiction."

Of particular importance will be determining whether Zundel, a German national, is responsible for the website that bears his name and what exactly it contains, the official said.

"It will certainly take a certain time to check everything."

Immigration authorities did not immediately return calls on when Zundel would be sent back.

On Thursday, Federal Court Justice Pierre Blais smoothed the way to expel Zundel, 65, on the grounds that he is a white supremacist hatemonger who poses a threat to national security.

Zundel has spent more than four decades in Canada, the last two in solitary confinement in a Toronto jail under a national security certificate.

In his 63-page decision cheered by Jewish groups, Blais concluded Zundel was a hypocrite who nurtured his extremist neo-Nazi extremist views behind a veil of pacifism.

"Zundel's activities are not only a threat to Canada's national security but also a threat to the international community of nations," Blais wrote.

While the decision cannot be appealed, Zundel's lawyer Peter Lindsay has indicated he would make two last-minute attempts to stay the deportation.

He was not immediately available to comment Friday.

Zundel, a longtime resident of Toronto, moved to the United States and was trying to gain U.S. citizenship. He was arrested in Tennessee for overstaying his visa and deported to Canada in February 2003.

His detention under the controversial national security certificate, which allows for indefinite detention, has prompted several rallies in his support, including some in recent weeks.

Despite the length of time he has spent in Canada during which he has had frequent legal and human rights battles, Zundel was never able to convert his landed immigrant status into citizenship.

Zundel has long argued the Holocaust never occurred, and that Jews have used the "alleged" atrocities as a way to extort money from the German government.



Last month, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (news - web sites) expressed shame over the horrors of the Nazi era, acknowledging that Adolf Hitler's regime enjoyed wide support among Germans.

Schroeder's comments came amid grim memorials of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, part of the Nazi killing machine that murdered six-million Jews and others killed in concentration camps during the Second World Wa

On another Supreme Court related matter...

The Supreme Court of Canada has ordered a new trial in the case of some skinheads charged with hatecrimes from a 1997 rally here in Toronto... which of course means I have the great pleasure of testifying against them again... and almost certainly recieving death threats and such again...