Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

The judge said: ‘Compliance, in my view, cannot be fulfilled by a drip-feed
of information as and when the issuing authority provides it.
‘I find that the particulars are vague and imprecise, I find the warrant
invalid and therefore discharge the defendant.’
She added that she had not been required to decide at this stage whether
the alleged crimes were valid extradition offences.
Toben has been in custody since October 1, when he was arrested at
Heathrow Airport on a flight from America, on his way to Dubai.
He was refused bail at that time.
Ms Cumberland opposed bail yesterday, but Ben Watson, defending,
successfully argued it would be ‘abhorrent’ to keep him behind bars any
longer.
His other bail conditions include residence at an approved address,
written confirmation from the Australian High Commission of which
passports he holds, and not to access the internet.
He is also banned from giving press interviews. These were safeguards ‘to
prevent any public order act offences’, said Judge Wickham.
Toben claims he will not get a fair trial in Germany.
The controversial author was reportedly jailed in 1999 at Mannheim
prison for breaching Germany’s Holocaust Law Section 130, prohibiting
anyone from ‘defaming the dead’.
Toben’s Adelaide Institute website has drawn criticism for many years.
In 2000 he fought an order by the Human Rights and Equal
Opportunities Commission in Australia to remove its ‘offensive’ content.
The commission claimed it breached Australia’s Racial Discrimination
Act.
Toben completed his Dr of Philosophy course at the University of
Stuttgart in 1977 and taught schools and colleges all over the world.
He founded the Adelaide Institute and is the author of at least eight books
on education, political science and history.
When his Heathrow plane was cleared of passengers flamboyant Toben
allegedly moved seats which officers suspected was a bid to evade
detection.
When cautioned he replied: ‘You can’t arrest me on British soil.’ At an
earlier hearing he accused the ‘world press’ of wrongly portraying him as
‘horrible, terrible, vicious...I must respond to that, because this is
nonsense.’ Attempting to reassure the court he would not jump bail, he
added: ‘The world is my prison.
‘I’m well known and to suggest there’s no honour in my person is to
slander me.’ Toben went on to claim he could not be tried in Germany
due to ‘double jeopardy’, referring to ongoing proceedings on the same
issue in Adelaide.
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