Richard Williamson, the British bishop who caused an international by denying the Holocaust in a media interview last year, has been fined €12,000 by a German court for his comments. His lawyer has indicated he will contest the ruling. A German court has fined British bishop Richard Williamson €12,000 ($17,800) for denying the Holocaust in an interview he gave to Swedish television last year that... 

German prosecutors said on Friday they had launched a probe against a controversial British bishop on suspicion of inciting racial hatred for comments he made about the Holocaust on Swedish television. A spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in the southern city of Regensburg said it had opened an investigation against Richard Williamson, 68, for remarks he made in an interview broadcast...