The appeal in cassation of the far-right essayist was rejected, confirming the sentence of 5,000 euros of days for challenges of the existence of the Holocaust.
The far-right essayist Alain Soral was definitely condemned for dispute of the existence of the Holocaust after the rejection of his appeal in cassation, according to a judgment consulted Tuesday, October 26 by the France-Presse agency.
63 years old, Mr. Sorral had been sentenced in June 2020 by the Paris Court of Appeal at 5,000 euros amended – a fine that could turn into custody in case of non-payment – to have Posted by his lawyer’s findings in another case, who “minimize and mitigate the sufferings of victims and their living conditions in” concentration camps “. The Court of Cassation has annulled this decision, but only with regard to the civil part of an association, making the definitive sentence, according to a judgment of 19 October.
At the sources of the file is another case: In 2016, the site of Alain Soral had published a drawing representing, on a false “a” tithe “chutzpah weekly”, the face of Charlie Chaplin in front of the star of David, with the question “Shoah where you are?”, Reference to the “a” polemic of Charlie Hebdo after the attacks of Brussels, “Daddy where you are?”. For this negationist publication, Alain Soral had been definitely sentenced to 10,000 euros of days.
Twenty other convictions
In November 2017, the same site had published the conclusions of his Damien Viguier lawyer in the “Shoah where you are?”. It quoted, for example, the negationist Robert Faurisson and commented on the piles of shoes and hair in the memorials of the shoah. For this second publication, the Correctional Court sentenced Alain Soral to one year in prison in April 2019, matching this sentence of an arrest warrant. Damien Viguier had been sentenced to 5,000 euros fine for complicity.
The parquet, however, had decided not to carry out the arrest warrant and appeal, believing that the Tribunal could not issue such a mandate for a conviction under the Law of Freedom of the Press. On appeal, the lawyer had been relaxed, and the sentence of Alain Soral, considerably lightened. The accused and four civilian associations had formed a cassation appeal.
Alain Soral has, moreover, already been sentenced to twenty times, largely for offenses of provocation to hate, defamation and anti-Semitic insult. In May, he was convicted of four months in semi-freedom prison for provocation to hatred on the grounds of religion, after attributing the Jews to the fire of Our Lady of Paris.