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World Jewish News
Ku Klux Klan leader deported from the Czech Republic
29.04.2009
The Czech police prevented the former leader of the American Ku Klux Klan, one of the most well-known racists USA David Duke, from reading lectures.
As reported by Lenta.Ru , on Friday he was arrested in Prague, where he had arrived at the invitation of local nationalists. After interrogation, Duke was released, but the migration service forced him to leave the country.
Duke was going to speak in Prague and Brno in a campaign to promote the Czech translation of his book. The police claim that this book questions the fact of mass murder of Jews during the Second World War. In the Czech Republic, Holocaust denial is a crime, which is punished for imprisonment for up to three years.
In the 1970s, David Duke had helped to revive the Ku Klux Klan racist movement. He organized its office in Louisiana, called "The Knights of Ku Klux Klan" and tried to reform the oldest racist organization in the United States as a whole.
Duke called on his supporters to abandon the white smocks with cone masks, actively exploited the topic of illegal immigration and tried to take full advantage of the media for propaganda.
In 1990-1992, Duke was a member of Louisiana's House of Representative. He unsuccessfully ran for the Senate and US President.
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