Canadian neo-Nazi Robert Wilson (l) with “Goyim Defense League” founder Jon Minadeo at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Police in Poland have arrested a Canadian neo-Nazi who projected an antisemitic message onto the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam at the behest of the Dutch authorities. Officers from the Amsterdam criminal investigation department were present on Tuesday morning when their Polish colleagues arrested Robert Wilson, a 41-year-old Canadian citizen and a former resident of California, where he was an activist with the so-called “Goyim Defense League” (GDL) — a neo-Nazi group that has earned notoriety for distributing virulently antisemitic flyers blaming Jews for the COVID-19 pandemic and other ills in residential neighborhoods across the US. The Dutch have formally requested Wilson’s extradition to the Netherlands, a spokesperson for the Amsterdam police told the AFP news agency. “We are grateful to the police that the suspect has been tracked down and arrested,” Ronald Leopold — director of the Anne Frank House — told the Dutch news outlet Het Parool. “The matter is now in the hands of the judiciary.” The offending message was flashed by Wilson in early February onto the front of the Anne Frank House using a laser. It referred to Anne Frank as the “inventor of the ballpoint pen” — an internet meme actively spread by Holocaust deniers who falsely claim that the diary recording her family’s experience in hiding during the Nazi occupation was written using a pen that had not yet been invented during World War II. The message was visible for about three minutes, projected from a parked van on the other side of the canal facing the Anne Frank House. The incident was strongly condemned by leading Dutch politicians, among them Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Justice Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz and Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema. Similar messages were also projected onto the Hemweg power station in Amsterdam and the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, leading to the separate arrests of two other extremists associated with the Dutch branch of the so-called “White Lives Matter” (WLM) movement.
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