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The police are investigating a projection of a text on the Anne Frank House this week. Images have been shown on a right-wing extremist Telegram channel of a text projected onto the Anne Frank House that suggests that she would not have written her diary herself. The police confirms to the NOS after reporting The parole that research is being done.
“Anne Frank inventor of the ballpoint pen”, was projected on the Anne Frank House, can be seen in a video shared on Telegram. The Amsterdam police are aware of the projection and it is being investigated. When it happened is not known.
In a reaction, mayor Halsema calls the projection “pure anti-Semitism” and “an attack on Anne Frank’s legacy”. “I am shocked and furious about this cowardly, reprehensible act,” the mayor told ANP.
The text has to do with the myth of the so-called ballpoint passages. In the 1980s, loose sheets of paper written with a ballpoint pen were found in Anne Frank’s diary. Right-wing extremists see evidence that the diary is fake, because the ballpoint pen was only introduced in the Netherlands after World War II.
Drone footage
The ballpoint pen sheets were most likely accidentally left in the diary by a researcher of the diary in the 1960s. The sheets do not detract from the authenticity of the diary, researchers have already said demonstrated.
The images of the projection are in the hands of The parole. The newspaper reports that an anti-Semitic song can be heard under the video. People standing in front of the museum see the text and respond to it. A man angrily points in the direction where the projection comes from. Het Parool writes that the makers of the film also made images of the area.
Criminal projections
During the past turn of the year, an extreme right-wing group projected texts on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam. The Public Prosecution Service has launched a criminal investigation into those slogans. The Public Prosecution Service believes that they are punishable.
In an explanation, the Public Prosecution Service said that limits have been set to freedom of expression. “One of those limits is that expressions may never incite discrimination or offend another population group.”
