Soral ordered to pay 134,400 euros to Licra

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 on Saturday by AFP.

Published for the first time in 1892, the work "Le Salut par les Juifs" by Léon Bloy was reissued by the Soral publishing house and put on sale on its website in 2013, in the "Les InfréKentables" collection. .

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 offending 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".

Also condemned for having blamed the burning of Notre-Dame de Paris on the Jews

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.

Alain Soral, 61, has been convicted on several occasions for similar acts.

Last week, he was sentenced to three fines, with the possibility of jail for non-payment, including blaming the Notre-Dame de Paris fire on the Jews.

In April 2019, he was sentenced to one year in prison for contesting the existence of the Shoah.

He appealed.

Its two Youtube channels were also deleted by the American online video platform in July for "repeated breaches of the terms of use".