In response to a journalist’squery at a press conference today regarding a picture published in an Estoniandaily newspaper, Foreign Minister Paet condemned all mockery of the Holocaust.
“Regarding the failed advertisement and the failed joke I would not call eitherof those humor” said Paet to a reporter for Baltic News Service. He added thatsomething that hurts and insults so many people can never be considered a joke:“We all know how many people were so brutally murdered in concentration camps.Trying to make a joke out of it is absolutely unacceptable and inappropriate.”Paet said he was sorry that “so many people have been hurt and insulted as aresult of this and as an Estonian I am very embarrassed.”
A few weeks ago an Estonian gascompany published an advertisement on its website using a photo of Auschwitzconcentration camp. Later an Estonian newspaper displayed another picture,mocking the previous advertisement in its humor section.
