Pedro Varela Geiss

Pedro Varela Geiss
Born (1957-10-09) October 9, 1957
Barcelona, Spain

Pedro Varela Geiss is a Spanish librarian, writer and Holocaust Denier. He is the owner of a book store in Barcelona which sells material related to Holocaust Denial and other conspiracy theories. He is also the former President of the Neo-Nazi group CEDADE, of which Leon Degrelle was part of.

Biography

Born on October 9, 1957, in Barcelona,[1] he became the President of CEDADE in 1978,[2] publishing Holocaust Denial material.[3] In 1992 he spent three months in prison in Austria for a Nazi speech he gave. After the end of CEDADE, he opened the book store Libreria Europa in Barcelona, from which he sells pro-nazi material to this day.[4] In 1998 he was convicted to five years in prison for allegedly justifying genocide, due to the Holocaust Denial material he sold in his store.[5] In 2010 he was again convicted to two years and nine months in prison for the felony of "disseminating genocidal ideals".[6] He was released from prison on March 8, 2012.[7] He went back to run his bookstore, which still remains open.

He declares himself a Catholic and Vegetarian[8]

References

  1. ↑ http://elpais.com/diario/2012/01/15/domingo/1326603160_850215.html
  2. ↑ https://books.google.es/books?id=M9Uj6u6b-ZIC
  3. ↑ https://books.google.es/books?id=YEPgHxQ2VVoC
  4. ↑ http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/do/08338.pdf
  5. ↑ https://books.google.es/books?id=-fGaaj5ZJEgC
  6. ↑ http://elpais.com/elpais/2010/03/08/actualidad/1268039835_850215.html
  7. ↑ http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/03/14/barcelona/1331744434.html
  8. ↑ http://www.claseshistoria.com/revista/2012/articulos/mayor-negacionistas.pdf
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