ETERNAL VIGILANCE

Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel abandons fight against deportation

Fri Feb 25, 5:42 PM ET

By COLIN PERKEL, Canada Press

TORONTO (CP) - Notorious Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel has abandoned his long fight to stay in Canada and is slated to be deported to Germany as early as Tuesday, his lawyer said Friday.

Zundel faces immediate arrest and prosecution in Germany for spreading hate.

"He won't be asking for a stay," his lawyer, Peter Lindsay told The Canadian Press.

"This is an unfair process. Everyone has turned their backs on him."

Lindsay said Zundel had given Canadian courts repeated chances to remedy the "unfairness that he has been subjected to and they haven't."

Lindsay said Immigration authorities were not prepared to wait to see whether the Supreme Court of Canada would hear his allegation of judicial bias, the lawyer said.

An Immigration spokesman said they planned to deport him as soon as possible.

"He's in a position now where we can legally remove him and that's our intention," Doug Kellam, of the Canadian Border Services Agency, said Friday

"That will be certainly in the short term."

Zundel is wanted for running afoul of German laws against denying the Holocaust.

"He will be picked up immediately and then arrested," a German official who requested anonymity said Friday.

"If there is an arrest warrant, then we have to prosecute if he's in our jurisdiction."

Of particular importance will be determining whether Zundel, a German national, is responsible for the website that bears his name and what exactly it contains, the official said.

Lindsay had said earlier Friday that he did not expect the deportation to happen for at least another week or two.

"I have it in writing from the Crown that they would warn us before he was deported so we would have a chance to go to court (to seek a stay),"

However, he said later it was obvious they had no plans to wait and there appeared to be little point in trying to remedy the "horribly unfair process."

B'nai Brith Canada demanded Ottawa kick Zundel out immediately.

"There must be no more excuses or further delays," said Frank Dimant, executive vice-president of the Jewish group.

On Thursday, Federal Court Justice Pierre Blais smoothed the way to expel the 65-year-old Zundel.

Blais found Zundel to be a hatemonger who poses a threat to national security because of his close association with white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups that have resorted to violence to press their political and social causes.

Zundel has spent more than four decades in Canada, the last two years in solitary confinement in a Toronto jail under anti-terrorism legislation.

In his 63-page decision cheered by Jewish organizations both in Canada and the U.S., Blais concluded Zundel was a hypocrite who nurtured extremist neo-Nazi views behind a veil of pacifism.

"Zundel's activities are not only a threat to Canada's national security but also a threat to the international community of nations," Blais wrote.

Zundel supporter Paul Fromm of the Canadian Association of Free Expression said he was "bitterly disappointed" because there was no evidence linking Zundel to violence.

"We're not dealing with a man who's a terrorist. He has the wrong political views," Fromm said from Winnipeg.

"That's a shocking departure from what most Canadians think of when they think of a terrorist."

Zundel, a longtime resident of Toronto, moved to the United States where he tried to gain citizenship. He was arrested in Tennessee for overstaying his visa and deported to Canada in February 2003.

His incarceration under controversial provisions that allow for indefinite detention has prompted several rallies in his support.

Despite his long stay in Canada, during which he has had frequent legal battles, Zundel was never able to convert his landed immigrant status into citizenship.

He has long argued the Holocaust never occurred, and that Jews have used the "alleged" atrocities as a way to extort money from the German government.

Last month, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder expressed shame over the horrors of the Nazi era in which six million Jews and others were murdered in concentration camps.

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