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SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for October 19, 2023 | SaltWireAMSTERDAM - A Dutch court on Thursday sentenced a man to two months in jail for projecting a message by laser onto the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam that suggested Frank's diary was a forgery or that she had not written it.
The words projected onto the building on the evening of Feb 6, 2023, referred to Frank as"the inventor of the ballpoint pen", a reference to debunked conspiracy theories about her diary. Frank, who was Jewish, wrote her diary from July 1942 to August 1944 while in hiding with her family in a cramped secret space above a canal-side warehouse. The museum where the message was projected is now located at the spot.