MANNHEIM, Germany (AP) — A defence lawyer of far-right activist Ernst Zundel, charged with denying the Holocaust, was physically carried from the courtroom Wednesday after defying a ruling banning her from the trial on grounds she tried to sabotage the proceedings.
Two female police officers had to carry Sylvia Stolz from the Mannheim courtroom after she refused the judge's order to leave.
"Resistance! The German people are rising up," Stolz shouted as she was taken from the room.
Some of the scores of supporters of Zundel, a 66-year-old German deported from Canada, also quit the courtroom. Zundel, who emigrated to Canada in 1958 and lived in Toronto and Montreal until 2001, has been standing trial since November on charges of years of anti-Semitic activities including denying the Holocaust — a crime in Germany — in documents and on the Internet.
The presiding judge 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.
Now there's what I'd call a good feminist role model!
Posted by: ataraxia | April 06, 2006 at 07:21 PM