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Lawyer ejected
in Shoah denial trial
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
MANNHEIM, Germany
Jerusalem Post
A defense lawyer for a far-right activist charged with denying the Holocaust
was
physically carried from a German courtroom Wednesday after defying a ruling
banning her from the trial on grounds that she tried to sabotage the
proceedings.
Two female police officers had to carry Sylvia Stolz from the Mannheim
courtroom
after she refused to leave upon the judge's order.
"Resistance! The German people are rising up," Stolz shouted as she was
taken
from the room.
Some of the scores of supporters of Ernst Zundel, a 66-year-old German
deported
from Canada, also left the courtroom.
Zundel, who has also lived in the US state of Tennessee, has been standing
trial
since November on incitement charges for years of alleged anti-Semitic
activities including denying the Holocaust - a crime in Germany - in
documents
and on the Internet.
Presiding judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen halted the trial on March 9 to ask for
Stolz's removal after she denounced the court as a "tool of foreign
domination"
and described the Jews as an "enemy people" in earlier sessions.
A higher court last week granted his request, though Stolz, one of six
defense
lawyers, can still appeal.
Meinerzhagen said Wednesday that the court intended to invite Zundel's
American
wife, Ingrid Rimland, as a witness.
He said German authorities would guarantee not to arrest Rimland, who is
also
under investigation for alleged incitement, if she agrees to testify.
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