Pedro Varela Geiss

Pedro Varela Geiss (born 9 October 1957) is a Spanish writer, bookseller and Holocaust denier. He was the owner of a Neo-Nazi bookstore in Barcelona that is now closed, and he describes himself as a “National Socialist” inspired by Adolf Hitler. He was also the former President of the disbanded Neo-Nazi group CEDADE to which the Belgian Nazi collaborator Léon Degrelle belonged.

Pedro Varela Geiss
Varela in an interview
Born	(1957-10-09) 9 October 1957 (age 67) Barcelona, Spain
Occupation(s)	Bookseller, author, publisher
Known for	Holocaust denial
Criminal charges	Convicted for Holocaust denial
Children	One

Biography

Born in Barcelona,^[1] he became the President of CEDADE in 1978,^[2] publishing Holocaust denial material.^[3]

In 1992, he spent three months in pre-trial detention in Austria for a Nazi speech that he gave, but he was acquitted. After the end of CEDADE, he opened the Libreria Europa bookstore in Barcelona, from which he promoted pro-Nazi speeches, conferences, lectures, and books on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.^[4] In 1998, he was sentenced to five years in prison for justifying genocide because of the Holocaust denial material that he sold at his store.^[5]

In 2010, he was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for the felony of "disseminating genocidal ideals".^[6] He was released from prison on 8 March 2012.^[7] He went back to run his bookstore. However, in July 2016, his bookstore was closed down for inciting hate speech and racial discrimination.^[8]

Personal life

He has a daughter. He is a mountaineer and an enthusiast of Richard Wagner and his body of work. He is also a Roman Catholic and a vegetarian.