Yahoo News Leading US white nationalist Richard Spencer banned from 26 European countries for five years
A leading figure in the white nationalist movement has reportedly been banned from over two dozen European countries.
Richard Spencer is said to have been banned from entering 26 countries across Europe’s visa-free Schengen zone for the next five years.
The ban was introduced by Polish authorities, who apparently implemented the ban after he was due to travel to the country to speak at a far-right conference.
Sources close to Poland’s Foreign Ministry confirms the ban had already taken effect.
Spencer, who was previously banned from the Schengen zone for three years after he was arrested in Hungary in 2014, has vowed to fight the ban.
He said: “I’m being treated like a criminal by the Polish government. It’s just insane.
“I haven’t done anything. What are they accusing me of?”
Poland’s Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski last month described Spencer as someone who “defames the Holocaust.”
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Mr Waszczykowski said: ”He should not appear publicly, and especially not in Poland.”
Spencer, 39, is president of the National Policy Institute, a white supremacist think tank.
He has previously called for “peaceful ethnic cleansing” to halt the “deconstruction” of European culture and claimed to have coined the term “alt-right”, a movement he considers being about white identity.
