“It is an insult to the victims”

BRUSSELS, 20 Sep. () –

The European Union has responded on Tuesday to the words of the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, who called for more investigations into the Holocaust, stating that the statements represent an insult to the memory of the victims.

“The EU is dismayed by these statements by the (Iranian) president, we are committed to combating anti-simitism and any attempt to deny, justify or trivialize the holocaust,” said EU Foreign Affairs spokesman Peter Stano at a press conference. from Brussels.

In this sense, he stressed that there is “a lot of evidence” of the tragedy that the holocaust represented, “what it meant and how it took place”, for which he considered Raisi’s words an “insult to the memory of the people who had a tragic death in the holocaust”.

The main spokesman for the European Commission, Eric Mamer, wanted to join the complaint to insist that the persecution of the Jews by Nazi Germany is “a historical, documented and proven fact.” “There can be no doubt that these terrible events took place and cast a shadow over Europe and the entire world,” he reflected.

In this way, the EU has responded to Raisi’s statements, who in an interview with the American television network CBS said that “there are some signs that the Holocaust took place”, but called for more investigations by “historians”.

These words had a quick response from the Israeli authorities, whose prime minister, Yair Lapid, published several photographs of the Holocaust on his account on the social network Twitter along with the text “some signs”.