Berlin, March 23 .- The controversial Bishop Richard Williamson, known for his statements Holocaust deniers and ultra-conservative member of the Brotherhood of Pius, will be tried this summer in Germany for incitement to racial hatred. The Court of Regensburg announced today the start of the proceedings against Bishop LeFebvrists and set a date for the 4th of July.
The trial for statements he made to a Scandinavian broadcaster should have been held last November but had to be postponed because the defendant changed counsel and new counsel needed time to hear the proceedings. "I think the historical evidence strongly speak against six million Jews were gassed intentionally in the gas chambers as a premeditated strategy of Adolf Hitler.
I believe there were gas chambers, "Williamson said in that interview. Because the interview was conducted in the seminar priest of the Brotherhood of Pius X in the town of Zaitzkofen, near Regensburg, is the justice of this last city that should be prosecuted Williamson. A lower court sentenced the bishop of 71 years of age in April 2010 to a fine of 10,000 euros for inciting racial hatred by these statements, ruling that turned against both the convicted and the prosecution.
Pope Benedict XVI in January 2009 raised the excommunication against Williamson and three other bishops of the Brotherhood of Pius X founded by the late Bishop Marcel Lefebvre ultraconservative, and allowed re-entry into the Catholic Church. The papal decision coincided with the publication of the controversial interview with Williamson, which brought heavy criticism of the Vatican, Benedict XVI made acknowledged that he knew the statements of Holocaust deniers when he announced he lifted his excommunication.
The new case against Williamson has raised expectations and that has engaged the services of a known neo-Nazi trends lawyer for his defense before the German courts. The German press reported that Autumn is Williamson has chosen to direct his defense Nahrath Wolfram, a notorious member of the German far right, neo-Nazi affiliated Nacionaldemócrata Party (NPD) and the last chief of the banned right-wing youth organization "Wiking Jugend" ( Viking Youth). 
The trial for statements he made to a Scandinavian broadcaster should have been held last November but had to be postponed because the defendant changed counsel and new counsel needed time to hear the proceedings. "I think the historical evidence strongly speak against six million Jews were gassed intentionally in the gas chambers as a premeditated strategy of Adolf Hitler.
I believe there were gas chambers, "Williamson said in that interview. Because the interview was conducted in the seminar priest of the Brotherhood of Pius X in the town of Zaitzkofen, near Regensburg, is the justice of this last city that should be prosecuted Williamson. A lower court sentenced the bishop of 71 years of age in April 2010 to a fine of 10,000 euros for inciting racial hatred by these statements, ruling that turned against both the convicted and the prosecution.
Pope Benedict XVI in January 2009 raised the excommunication against Williamson and three other bishops of the Brotherhood of Pius X founded by the late Bishop Marcel Lefebvre ultraconservative, and allowed re-entry into the Catholic Church. The papal decision coincided with the publication of the controversial interview with Williamson, which brought heavy criticism of the Vatican, Benedict XVI made acknowledged that he knew the statements of Holocaust deniers when he announced he lifted his excommunication.
The new case against Williamson has raised expectations and that has engaged the services of a known neo-Nazi trends lawyer for his defense before the German courts. The German press reported that Autumn is Williamson has chosen to direct his defense Nahrath Wolfram, a notorious member of the German far right, neo-Nazi affiliated Nacionaldemócrata Party (NPD) and the last chief of the banned right-wing youth organization "Wiking Jugend" ( Viking Youth).
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