Credit: twitter.com / Jean De Dieu Momo,  Cameroon  Minister Delegate at the Ministry of justice

The Israeli Embassy in Cameroon has said it is outraged at comments made by Cameroon’s Deputy Justice Minister Jean de Dieu Momo in which he appeared to justify the Holocaust, in which some six million Jewish people were killed in Nazi Germany,  BBC Africa reported.   Asked on state television why he thought opposition leader Maurice Kamto had refused to accept defeat following the 7 October presidential election,  Mr Momo used long established anti-Semitic stereotypes:

“In Germany, there was a race of very rich people. They had enormous economic power. And they were so arrogant that the German people felt a little nervous. Then one day, a certain Hitler came to power and put these populations in gas chambers.”

BBC Africa.

The  Israeli Embassy  has called for “an immediate apology,” from Cameroon’s government.