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Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) head Eduard Hellving resigned on Monday, while saying that he had discussed the matter "openly" with President Klaus Iohanni...

96 shares Illustrative: Anti-terrorist units of the Romanian Informations Service (SRI) march during national day celebrations in Bucharest, Romania, Dec. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) BUCHAREST, Romania — A former Romanian intelligence officer was sentenced to one year and one month in prison for Holocaust denial in the first conviction under a 2002 law, a court in Bucharest confirmed to AFP Thursday. Vasile Zarnescu, 74, who worked for eleven years for Romania’s Intelligence Service (SRI), was convicted by a court in Bucharest for writing several online articles in which ...

22 shares A former Romanian intelligence officer was sentenced to one year and one month in prison for Holocaust denial in the first conviction under a 2002 law, a court in Bucharest confirms. Vasile Zarnescu, 74, who worked for eleven years for Romania’s Intelligence Service (SRI), was convicted by a court in Bucharest for writing several online articles in which he described the Holocaust as a “fraud.” Vasile Zarnescu in 2014 (video screenshot) In 2016, he also published a book titled: “The Holocaust, A Diabolical Hoax.” Zarnescu says he will appeal the sentence. “It’s t...