St Pius X Bishop Richard Williamson will not attend his trial in Germany for questioning the Holocaust, his lawyer told reporters, but he will be represented. “He will not be there,” lawyer Matthias Lossman told AFP. “I will explain to the trial why he is not coming.”
It later emerged that the Society of St Pius X general superior Bishop Bernard Fellay barred Williamson in March from “conducting public discourse that is not strictly related to religious themes.” according to reports in the German daily newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung and Tagesspiegel.
Reportedly, Fellay wrote to Williamson saying that he should not enable the court and its prosecuting attorneys to “reconstruct the situation to their advantage”, JTA says.
Williamson had said in a television interview recorded in Germany in 2009 that “200,000 to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, but none of them by gas chambers.”
“It was all lies, lies, lies,” he said in the interview, aired later on Swedish television, and “not one Jew” was killed in the Nazi gas chambers.
Williamson was fined 12,000 euros (10,600 pounds) in the southern city of Regensburg earlier this year where he made the comments.
But a further trial was ordered however after he refused to pay up, although the court does not require the bishop to be present.
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