Irving faces week in Austria cell

November 18, 2005

The revisionist British historian David Irving is likely to remain in custody in Austria for at least a week, prosecutors say.
The authorities are considering whether to put him on trial for denying the Nazi mass extermination of Jews, the public prosecutor’s spokesman said. [.continue.]

Apparently in Austria you could go to jail for up to 20 years, if you say you think the holocaust never happened. Wow, talk about the Thought Police.
I do not agree with Irving at all, he sounds more than a bit loony.
But saying an event that happened 60 years ago didn’t happen can get you 20 years in prison? This doesn’t sound like the enlightened, sophisticated, elitist Europe that is constantly bashing the US for not being, well more European to me. Wait, actually I think it does.

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