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Germany wants Holocaust denial to be
EU-wide crime

08 January 2007,
17:29 CET

(BERLIN) - Germany wants to make Holocaust denial punishable
by law in every member state of the European Union during its current
presidency of the bloc, Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries said on
Monday.

"Denial of the Holocaust is an example of what would be punishable by
law if standardization took place," Zypries said at a press conference to
present the German government's programme on justice matters for the next
six months.

Previous attempts to unify legal standards for Holocaust denial and
other xenophobic attacks were blocked by Italy, but the new Italian
government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi has dropped its opposition,
Zypries said.

Among EU members, laws against denying the slaughter of six million
Jews by the Nazis in World War II exist in Austria, Belgium, France,
Germany and Spain.

In a recent high-profile case, controversial British historian David
Irving spent 13 months in jail in Austria for challenging the Holocaust
before being released last month.

Germany took over the rotating six-month presidency of the 27-country
EU on January 1.

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