Alain Soral ordered to pay 134,400 euros to the Licra

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The far-right essayist Alain Soral was sentenced by the Paris Court of Appeal to pay 134,400 euros to the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra) for releasing a book deemed anti-Semitic, according to a decision consulted Saturday by AFP.

First published in 1892,

Léon Bloy's

was reissued by the Soral publishing house and put up for sale on its website in 2013, in the

collection

.

The removal of anti-Semitic passages already ordered

The Licra had taken legal action and the Bobigny court had ordered the withdrawal of fifteen passages deemed anti-Semitic, under penalty of a fine of 300 euros per day of delay.

The publishing house had considered "impossible" to "redact" the book to remove the incriminated passages and withdrew it from sale for several years.

But in 2018, the website had indicated on the page dedicated to the book that "the works that the Licra and others want to redact by court decision are still for sale in their uncensored version".

Licra then seized the execution judge of the Bobigny court to enforce the 2013 decision. The latter agreed with them, as well as the Paris Court of Appeal, which fixed in its decision on Thursday the amount of the fine of 134,400 euros.

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