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BELGIUM December 2000 Anti-revisionist law enforced for the very first time Anti-Holocaust denial legislation, passed by the Belgian parliament in March 1995, has been successfully enforced by the Brussels court of justice. On 7 November, far-right activist David Vercruysse, was handed a six months suspended sentence, fined £650 and ordered to publish the complete text of his conviction in two national newspapers. Vercruysse was convicted for distributing the August 1997 edition of Final Conflict, the magazine of the fascist International Third Position in Britain, containing a revisionist article. The court¹s verdict was that this was a clear violation of Belgian laws prohibiting any form of denial, minimalisation, justification or approval of the Nazi genocide. The owner of the Brussels bookshop where Final Conflict was on sale was also charged but walked free, his entire stock of Final Conflict confiscated. Though he was not convicted, the judge criticised him for selling revisionist publications. Vercruysse, who failed show up in court on 7 November, has been active in various Belgian New Right and other far-right extremist groups. In recent years, he has been part of the editorial board of the nazi Europe Nouvelle magazine. From Wim Haelsterman of AFF-Verzet/Résistances
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