MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, during a press briefing at the White House Spicer tried to explain the atrocity of the chemical weapons attacks which the United States blames on Syria's President Bashar Assad by claiming that not even Hitler had used chemical weapons on his own people. The spokesman though acknowledged that Nazis did use gas at "Holocaust centers."
"Spicer's statement is the most evil slur upon a group of people we have ever heard from a White House press secretary. Sean Spicer now lacks the integrity to serve as White House press secretary, and President Trump must fire him at once," Steven Goldstein, Executive Director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, said in the statement published on Facebook.
He added that by making the remark during the popular Jewish public holiday of Passover Spicer has "engaged in Holocaust denial, the most offensive form of fake news imaginable, by denying Hitler gassed millions of Jews to death."
The suspected chemical attack in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib took place on April 4 claiming lives of dozens of people. The results of examination of the survived victims of the incident brought for treatment to Turkey showed the use of poisonous sarin gas, according to the country's Health Minister Recep Akdag.
After a major chemical weapon attack in Syria's East Ghouta in 2013, the country joined the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. In January 2016, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced that all chemical weapons in Syria had been destroyed. Assad said that the country’s government had never used weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weapons, against the Syrian people.
