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Far-right French politician Bruno Gollnisch was convicted of Holocaust denial.
A French court fined Gollnisch, deputy head of Jean-Marie LePen’s National Front Party in France and a member of the European Parliament, $6,450 and gave him a three-month suspended sentence for questioning in 2004 how many Jews died in the Holocaust and whether the Nazis had gas chambers in concentration camps.
Gollnisch was also ordered to pay $71,2000 to those who filed suit against him, including the non-governmental organization SOS Racism. He was suspended from his university teaching job in Lyon for five years because of his comments.
Gollnisch called the court verdict “repressive� and plans to appeal. Earlier this week, he became head of a new far-right caucus in the European Parliament.
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6514
A French court fined Gollnisch, deputy head of Jean-Marie LePen’s National Front Party in France and a member of the European Parliament, $6,450 and gave him a three-month suspended sentence for questioning in 2004 how many Jews died in the Holocaust and whether the Nazis had gas chambers in concentration camps.
Gollnisch was also ordered to pay $71,2000 to those who filed suit against him, including the non-governmental organization SOS Racism. He was suspended from his university teaching job in Lyon for five years because of his comments.
Gollnisch called the court verdict “repressive� and plans to appeal. Earlier this week, he became head of a new far-right caucus in the European Parliament.
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6514
