Italian university bars Holocaust denier

Like in the Middle Ages, heresies are still being punished in Italy By MARTA FALCONI, Associated Press Writer ROME - An Italian university closed one of its campuses for the day Friday [18-5-2007, eds.] to prevent a planned lecture by a retired French professor who denies gas chambers were used in Nazi concentration camps. Robert Faurisson, who has been convicted five times in France for denying crimes against humanity, had been expected to speak at a local hotel instead but that conference too was later canceled after scuffles with protesters. Faurisson had been invited to lecture at the University of Teramo, in central Italy, by Claudio Moffa, a professor of Asian and African history and director of a master's program in Middle East studies. Full story: Italian university bars Holocaust denier