Richard Spencer is now banned from dozens of European nations

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Self-proclaimed alt-right leader Richard Spencer has reportedly been banned from dozens of European nations though he says he has not received confirmation about the ban.

According to Poland’s state-run news agency PAP, the Polish authorities banned him from visiting 26 countries in the visa-free Schengen area for at least five years.

Sources close to the Polish Foreign Ministry have confirmed to the Associated Press that the ban is currently in effect. The source spoke anonymously because he does not have permission to speak on the ministry’s behalf.

Back in 2014, he was banned from the Schengen zone for three years after being arrested in Hungary where he was going to host a conference.

Spencer plans to attempt to contest the ban.

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“I’m being treated like a criminal by the Polish government. It’s just insane,” he said. “I haven’t done anything. What are they accusing me of?”

In August he was planning to speak at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the same event during which a nationalist drove his car into peaceful protesters killing one woman and injuring dozens more.

He had also planned to attend a far-right conference in Warsaw this month but canceled after hearing the government was not going to let him into the country.

“It just didn’t feel like it was worth it,” he said.

Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski has described Spencer as a man “who defames what happened during World War II, defames the Holocaust.”

“He should not appear publicly, and especially not in Poland,” Waszczykowski added.

Among some of the countries he is banned from are France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden.