A Belgian court has ordered a rising star of the extreme right to take a bespoke tour of a Holocaust memorial museum before facing trial for anti-Semitism, hate speech and firearm offences.

“I am an avid fan of museums and I would also like to visit this museum. It also turns out to be a tour, so all the better", Dries Van Langenhove, 26, said.

Mr Langenhove is the founder of radical far right Flemish youth organisation Schild & Vrienden (Shield and Friends). Members were exposed exchanging racist, sexist and anti-Semitic material online in a documentary aired on Flemish broadcaster VRT last September.

On Tuesday, Mr Langenhove was charged with Holocaust denial, hate speech and breaking a law on carrying a firearm by the proscutors’ office in the city of Ghent after a 6am raid on Monday morning.

The investigating magistrate has ordered Mr Langenhove not to comment on the case and to visit the Dossin barracks in the Flemish city of Mechelen.

The Dossin barracks was the scene for the deportation of thousands of Jews and Roma and now houses a Holocaust museum.

“I understand the signal that the judiciary wants to send with this," museum director Christophe Busch told the De Morgan newspaper.