The Holocaust-denying Bishop, Richard Williamson, is on a flight to his British home, after being ousted by the Argentinean government. Williamson was ordered to leave Argentina after he refused to repeal his denial of the existence of Nazi gas chambers. Holocaust denial is against Argentinean law.
The bishop’s attempt to avoid publicity by sporting dark glasses and a cap was thwarted by a Todo Noticias new channel reporter. Before boarding his British Air flight from Buenos Aires, Williamson shoved the reporter into a pole with his shoulder as he hurried to catch a flight for London. The reporter was then restrained by two unidentified men who accompanied Williamson.
The British bishop, who left his Argentina post, is unapologetic for his views. Williamson previously apologized to Pope Benedict XVI for creating a controversy but did not recant his assertions that only 300,000 Jews died in the Holocaust, mostly of starvation, which he expressed in a Swedish television news interview last month. The Holy See informed Williamson that he would be required to recant his views before he could be fully readmitted to the Roman Catholic Church.