After the rejection of his cassation appeal, the far-right essayist, Alain Soral, was definitively sentenced for contesting the Shoah, according to a judgment consulted on Tuesday.

Alain Bonnet dit Soral, 63, was sentenced on June 25, 2020 by the Paris Court of Appeal to 5,000 euros in day-fines, a fine that could turn into detention in the event of non-payment, for having published conclusions of his lawyer in another case, which “minimize and trivialize the suffering of the victims and their living conditions in the concentration camps”.

"Shoah where are you?

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The Court of Cassation annulled this decision but only with regard to the constitution of civil party of an association, which makes the sentence final, according to a judgment of October 19. At the source of the file is another case: in 2016, Alain Soral's site published a drawing representing, on a fake A titled "Chutzpah Hebdo", the face of Charlie Chaplin in front of the Star of David, with the question "Shoah where are you?" ", Reference to the controversy of" Charlie Hebdo "after the attacks in Brussels," Papa where you are? ".

For this negationist publication, Soral was definitively sentenced to 10,000 euros in day-fines.

In November 2017, the same site had published the conclusions of his lawyer Damien Viguier in the case "Shoah where you are?

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He cited, for example, the negationist Robert Faurisson and commented on the piles of shoes and hair in the memorials of the Shoah.

Alain Soral condemned twenty times

For this second publication, the criminal court had condemned Alain Soral to one year firm in April 2019, by attaching this sentence to an arrest warrant, while condemning Damien Viguier to a 5,000 euros fine for complicity. However, the prosecution decided not to execute the arrest warrant and to appeal it, considering that the court could not issue such a warrant for a conviction under the 1881 law on freedom of the press.

On appeal, Damien Viguier was released and Alain Soral's sentence considerably reduced.

The defendant and four civil party associations had lodged an appeal in cassation.

Alain Soral has already been convicted about twenty times, largely for offenses of incitement to hatred, defamation and anti-Semitic insult.

Recently, in May, he was sentenced on appeal to four months in prison on day parole for inciting hatred on the grounds of religion, after blaming the Notre-Dame de Paris fire on the Jews.

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