Richard Williamson, a Roman Catholic bishop who denied the Holocaust and was reinstated to the church last month by Pope Benedict XVI, left Argentina today under threat of expulsion.
Williamson, wearing a black baseball cap and sunglasses, stopped to wave his fist in the face of a reporter for the Todo Noticias news channel at Buenos Aires�s international airport. The reporter was then held back by two unidentified men accompanying the cleric.
The U.K.-born Williamson, 68, who lived near the Argentine capital, was on a flight to London that departed shortly after 2 p.m. local time, the Interior Ministry said.
The pope's Jan. 24 decision to lift the excommunication of Williamson and three other traditionalist priests who broke with the church in the 1980s prompted criticism from Jewish groups and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The pope has called for Williamson to retract the remarks before he can be officially reinstated.
In a Swedish television interview last month, Williamson said that the "historical evidence is hugely against 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy by Adolf Hitler."
Argentine Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo said Feb. 19 that those comments "deeply hurt Argentine society, the Jewish people and humanity." He said Williamson misled immigration authorities about his work in the South American country and had 10 days to leave or be forcibly expelled.
(Source: Bloomberg News)
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