Australian charged over 'racist' video

SYDNEY: An Australian man has been charged with attempting to incite racial hatred after allegedly posting an anti-Semitic video on the YouTube
website, police said Thursday.

The 38-year-old man is allegedly seen making racist comments aimed at the Jewish community in a 10-minute clip filmed in the west coast city of Perth, the West Australian newspaper reported.

YouTube had been contacted and asked to remove the video, state police commissioner Karl O'Callaghan told reporters.

"They are a USA-based company and we don't have any jurisdiction over them, but we have been working with them to pull the video down and they have been fairly cooperative in the past," he said.

The video allegedly showed the accused taunting a young Jewish man outside a Perth shopping centre, calling him a "racist homicidal maniac."

He also speaks directly to the camera, warning Jewish people "your days are numbered" and "I will put you in the camps with the rest of them," the newspaper said.

The man was arrested on Wednesday and is due to appear in court on May 19. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 14 years in jail.

His arrest came on the same day a Holocaust revisionist was sentenced to three months jail in Australia for contempt of court.

Gerald Frederick Toben, 65, who is wanted in Germany on charges of Holocaust denial, was jailed on 24 counts of criminal contempt of court, but the sentence was delayed for 14 days pending an appeal.

The court had ordered Toben to stop publishing offensive material on his Adelaide Institute website in 2002.