A year and a half of prison for neo-nazis Pedro Varela for incitement to hatred. The Barcelona court sentenced the owner of the European bookstoreAlthough with a sentence much lower than the 12 years requested by the charges, both the prosecution and Movement against intolerance and the Federation of Jewish Communities of SpainIn a 481-page judgment, the Article 6 court emphasizes that Varela, previously convicted of disseminating ideas justifying genocide, “indiscriminately disseminated,” both through the publication and distribution of books through Ediciones Ojeda, as well as through conferences at its premises, “a line of thought based on the culture of supremacist hatred and animosity and racial segregation against what he considers inferior races, especially those of Jewish origin, among other minorities, by praising the purity of the white race and the need to perpetuate this lineage, by defending its homogeneity and the need for its survival as a racial and cultural entity. Among other things, “claiming that racial integration is genocide against the white race through miscegenation“. The magistrates thus consider that the texts and expressions that he disseminated Varela “they used language of a discriminatory nature and in particular humiliating on grounds of skin colour (“race”), national origin, religion, ideology or sexual orientation to support their discriminatory, in particular racist and anti-Semitic, theses.” The judgment also underlines that the owner of the Europa Bookstore, with its books and publications, “exalted, justified and praised the extermination actions carried out by the Third Reichcreated and led by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s in Germany, defending not only his figure and his regime of terror but justifying, denying, ridiculing, trivializing and trivializing the atrocious crimes planned and executed by said regime for the collective extermination of ethnic minorities, racial minorities, sexual minorities, people with disabilities or for religious reasons, with particular emphasis on the Jewish people. At the trial last May, Varela accused the prosecution of persecuting him and presented himself as a simple bookseller and publisher. Today, the judgment maintains that “although they sold books that apparently dealt with various topics such as politics, history, philosophy or economics, they were mostly unidirectional in their content, with an absolute lack of plurality and in which, as a whole, sometimes held the Jewish people responsible for the evils of the world, or said that blacks were inferior, that the best way to respect race is segregationthat miscegenation will lead to the disappearance of civilization, or that what they describe as a tide of immigration is an invasion of immigrants, a massive phenomenon that replaces the native population with halogens that are impossible to integrate. Among other things, even that “Women should not have the same civil rights as menor that homosexuality is a form of sexual depravity.
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siehe auch: Owner of bookstore selling Nazi books sentenced to 1.5 years in prison Pedro Varela ran Europa in Barcelona from 2006 to 2016 The owner of the Europa bookstore in Barcelona between 2006 and 2016, Pedro Varela, has been sentenced to one-and-a-half years in prison for selling Nazi books. The store was located in the Gracia neighborhood, and he was one of the leaders of the EO cultural association and Ediciones O, which distributed and sold Nazi material. The Barcelona court has sentenced Varela to 18 months in prison for Holocaust denial, trivialization, and promoting crimes against humanity. He has also received a fine of €15 daily during the next seven months. He was facing 12 years in prison and a € 10,800 fine. Along with Varela, five other individuals were accused of using the library, the association, and the editorial to spread “supremacist” views between 2006 and 2016. They were found not guilty. Among other fines, Varela has been banned from holding any educational positions, as well as banned from editing, distributing, or selling books neither on-site nor online.