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Controversial bishop at centre of Holocaust denial back in Britain

Other News Materials 25 February 2009 12:20 (UTC +04:00)

A Roman Catholic bishop at the centre of an international row over the denial of the Holocaust arrived back in his native Britain Wednesday after being asked to leave Argentina, dpa reported.

Richard Williamson, 68, stepped off a British Airways plane from Buenos Aires early Wednesday at London's Heathrow airport.

Denial of the Holocaust is not a criminal offence in Britain. The government has said that, as a British passport holder, Williamson is entitled to come to Britain.

Williamson was among four ultra-traditionalist members of the Society of Saint Pius X bishops whose 1988 excommunication Pope Benedict XVI revoked last month.

He sparked outrage with an interview he gave on Swedish television in which he denied the murder of 6 million Jews in Nazi concentration camps.

Argentina's Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo said Argentina would expel Williamson because his remarks insulted "Argentinians, the Jewish people and all of humanity."

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