Criminal Investigation of David Irving halted as Time Runs Out

Weinheim, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis (dpa/lsw) -- Weinheim [Baden Württemberg] magistrates court has halted the case against the British holocaust-denier David Irving as the time for action has expired. This was announced on Monday.

After the extradition request to Great Britain made last year failed to produce results, the judge concerned stated that after ten years the absolute statute of limitations has now run.

"That is the end of it. He will now be informed by mail that the action has been abandoned ." Irving is alleged to have denied the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis at a 1990 function of the NPD in Weinheim. For this reason the Mannheim public prosecutor indicted him in 1995.

Irving's Weinheim lecture was organised by the then NPD chairman Günter Deckert, right, who was sentenced to two years and three months prison by the Mannheim district court in this connection in May 1997. For years Irving himself has been barred from entering Germany.

  David Irving's Weinheim speech, Sept 2, 1990: the police transcript

  David Irving's Weinheim speech of 1990: the Indictment

  Expulsion order, giving Mr Irving three days to leave Germany for ever: German | English translation

  Central Criminal Records office in Berlin secretly advises the Weinheim court that David Irving has "No Criminal Record" in Germany, Dec 9, 1996.

  Jun 11, 1997: The German Secret Service (BND) refuses to join in the operations against David Irving

  Aug 13, 1997: British Home Office agrees with German government to help with extradition of Irving

  An Appeal for Help for Those Being Persecuted for their Fight for Free Speech

  Dec 22, 1997: David Irving writes to British Home Secretary Jack Straw

  Deckert sentenced to three more months for letter to Dachau survivor

  A letter from jail by Günter Deckert

  German embassy's further arrogant explanations of Deckert's imprisonment

  Index on Deckert

  July 1998: Cowardly German government tries to Justify its Suppression of Free Speech.

  Egged-on by British Leftists: Germany pursues scientist Germar Rudolf's Extradition

  Jan 12, 2000: German press reports attempt to extradite Irving as his trial of Lipstadt action begins

 

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