Ottawa, Canada – The Supreme Court of Canada won’t hear a claim from Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel that he was unlawfully detained and then deported to Germany.
As is usual in leave-to-appeal cases, the court gave no reasons for its ruling.
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Zundel, who was detained for two years on a security certificate as a foreign national deemed to be a threat to national security, had sought $10 million in damages. Lower courts upheld the security certificate and subsequently rejected his claim for damages.
Over the years, Zundel, 67, fought a series of court cases over his publications which denied the Nazi slaughter of Jews during the Second World War. In February, a German court convicted him of Holocaust denial and sentenced him to the maximum term of five years. [CP]