Justin Bieber says Anne Frank 'would have been a fan'

Justin Bieber has caused controversy by expressing the view that Anne Frank “would have been a belieber” during his visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

The public were made aware of Mr Bieber’s sentiments after The Anne Frank House wrote on their Facebook page on Saturday: “Yesterday night Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank House, together with his friends and guards. Fans were waiting outside to see a glimpse of him. He stayed more than an hour in the museum. In our guestbook he wrote, ‘Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.’”

The 19-year-old’s 37 million Twitter followers are called ‘beliebers’, so the comparison between his fans and a victim of the Holocaust has sparked a global response.

Gillian Walnes, co-founder of the Anne Frank Trust UK said: “This is a place where Anne Frank spent two years hiding in claustrophobic conditions, where she put down her dreams of making the world a better place. Now 70 years later a pop singer is trying to hijack this for his own self-aggrandisement. It says a lot about what his ego is turning in to.”