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Romanian far-right MEP Corneliu Vadim Tudor, who for years has made racist and anti-Semitic statements, said on television last week that "there never was a Holocaust in Romania".
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BUCHAREST (AFP)---The Elie Wiesel Holocaust institute called on Romanian prosecutors to launch legal action against a Euro MP for denying the Holocaust.
"We call on the prosecutor's office and other state institutions to launch an investigation regarding this case of explicit denial of the Holocaust in Romania," the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania said in a statement.
Romanian far-right MEP Corneliu Vadim Tudor, who for years has made racist and anti-Semitic statements, said on television last week that "there never was a Holocaust in Romania".
"I will deny it until I die because I love my people," he added.
Between 280,000 and 380,000 Romanian and Ukrainian Jews died in Romania and
the territories under its control during the Holocaust in World War II, according to a commission headed by Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel, himself a Romanian-born Jew.