Jean-Marie Le Pen fined £25,000 for 'Holocaust Denial'

[Masato]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... story.html


Former French far-Right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen is fined £25,000 for Holocaust denial after describing the gas chambers as a 'detail of history'

Far-right French MEP Jean-Marie Le Pen was today fined £25,000 for Holocaust denial after describing the wartime genocide of Jews as a 'detail of history'.

The founder of the National Front (FN) had claimed immunity from prosecution because of his status as a European Parliament member representing South-East France.

But judges sitting at the Paris Correctional Court rejected his defence, saying he was 'guilty of questioning a crime against humanity'.

Reigniting old tensions, Mr Le Pen appeared on live French TV a year ago and said: 'What I said corresponds to what I think. 'The gas chambers were a detail of the war, unless we admit that the war was a detail of the gas chambers!'

During the interview on the BFMTV channel in Paris, Mr Le Pen said 'the truth' should 'not shock anyone', and that historical reality should not be used to portray him as anti-Jewish.

'This case was manipulated against me by introducing a hint of anti-Semitism,' said Mr Le Pen. 'I challenge anyone to name an anti-Semitic phrase in my political life.'

He has regularly made the comment about the Holocaust, telling the European Parliament in 2009: 'I just said that the gas chambers were a detail of Second World War history, which is clear.'


Repeatedly questioned about the Holocaust, Mr Le Pen said: 'War is horrible, you know, a piece of shrapnel that tears your stomach, a bomb that decapitates you, a room in which you are asphyxiated, it's all pretty disgusting, it's true.'

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[Benwahwah]

You're better than the Daily Mail dude.

(Interesting story, just the Daily Mail is probably the most hated paper in the UK.)

[IDL]

Wonder who has the power in France..

I think they go after people for a few reasons

1) Get the holocaust in the news cycles. This helps to get it into peoples minds and freshen it up. This helps for political reasons, which is also why its pumped into the school systems and there is such a big industry built up around it. It increases support for Israel, and also conditions people to be uncritical of Jewish power.

2) Make an example out of individuals so others are discouraged from questioning the historical narrative or really even talking about it outside of the establishment narrative.

3) Since there is an industry around it they need to justify their jobs every once in awhile.