Two months jail for man convicted over antisemitic statement on Anne Frank House


View of the entrance of the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands November 22, 2018. REUTERS/Eva Plevier/File Photo

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch court on Thursday sentenced a man to two months in jail for projecting a message by laser onto the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam that suggested Frank's diary was a forgery or that she had not written it.

The court convicted Robert Wilson, a 42-year-old Canadian who lives in Poland, of projecting the message which it called "a form of Holocaust-denial that is extremely grieving to victims and their relatives".

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