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original]  | | | REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA | 409 HV 3/05y | Tel. 01 40127/1209 or 1261 | | Criminal Central Court | | Vienna | Vienna, February 2,
2006 |
TO: National Office for the Protection of
the Constitution
and the Fight Against
Terrorism,
c/o Federal Police
Directorate, Vienna ATTN: Dr. Isabella WINTERSTEIGER
or Dr. ZANDER RE: Criminal Trial of David IRVING for
Reactivation
[Wiederbetätigung]
- Request for Trial Security The main trial of the criminal case against
David IRVING under Section 3(g) of the Prohibition
Law has been set down for trial by jury at the
Central Criminal Court, Vienna, on - Monday, February 20 and Tuesday,
February 21, 2006,
- starting each day at 9 a.m.,
Grand Jury Courtroom
For this reason the prompt introduction and
application of appropriate security measures are
requested for guarding the courtroom and securing
the criminal trial itself. Media interest in this trial is already
enormously large. Countless television teams and
journalists, mainly foreign, in fact from around
the entire world, have announced their coming,
mainly via the Internet. In consultation with me the President of the
Central Criminal Court, Vienna, Dr.
Ulrike Psenner has on this
occasion waived the still-effective ban on filming
and photography for the Grand Jury Courtroom, so
that before the trial begins we must expect a
corresponding onslaught by camera teams and news
photographers, who will all thereafter have to be
cleared from the courtroom in order not to delay
the start of the main proceedings too
long. Particularly with this trial it is
especially difficult to assess the special interest
of individual members of the audience or what
definite "camp" they may belong to. The fact is
that the prisoner has been receiving hundreds of
letters and cards every month from all over the
world, which are to be counted without exception as
fan mail.[*] We cannot even begin to
estimate how far this interest in the various camps
will translate into personal attendance at the
trial. For this reason, we request the transmittal
of the above request with special urgency coupled
with a plea for contact to be established, as
various points ought to be clarified well in
advance. For example, whether there should be an
additional entrance - security check, coupled
perhaps with procuring the personal ID details of
every single member of the public - and whether the
gallery to the Grand Jury Courtroom ought not in
fact to be left closed to the public for better
security and surveillance operations. At the very least, taking into account the
innumerable pages on the Internet on the subject of
the trial - at times the keyword "David Irving"
yielded over 9 million hits (URLs) every day - we
may in any case be faced with operations to disrupt
during and before the main trial. Yours faithfully, Peter Liebetreu
Trial President
 *
COMMENT BY MR IRVING: All incoming and outgoing
mail is screened by prison staff. To date, Sept.
29, 2006, around 1,500 items have been received,
including only one hostile card (on my birthday,
which wished Many Happy Returns - to prison). At
the date of this letter, however,
NONE
had been released to me by the prison
authorities.
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