French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has been given a three-month suspended jail term for playing down the Nazi occupation of France.Le Pen, who was also fined 10,000 euros (£7,400), described the occupation as "not especially inhumane".
Le Pen, 79, is the leader of the French far-right party, the National Front. He reached a surprise second-place finish in the 2002 French presidential election, after beating the socialist candidate in the first round.
Le Pen's remarks were made in an interview with the far-right magazine Rivarol in January 2005. Elsewhere in the article he described the 1944 massacre of 86 people in the town of Villeneve d'Ascq as the actions of a junior officer "mad with rage", and praised the Gestapo for its role in the incident.
The French court ruled that Le Pen had denied a crime against humanity and had been complicit in condoning war crimes.
This is not the first time that Le Pen has faced legal sanctions for making controversial comments about the actions of the Nazis. In 1987 he was fined for describing the Nazi gas chambers as a "detail of history".
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4 comments:
Wander how long it is before Nick Griffin will be charged for various criminal offences?
Maybe not.
Not if he's under the pay of mi5
What a wanker!!!
Talking of self-abuse, while dosing themselves up on the Islamophobic headlines of the Sun newspaper, Mark Collett came across the headline "Bash The Bishop", and took their advice to the letter, spewing up all over his prized statuette of adolf hitler.
Ahhh ... the nazi BNP’s favourite French nazi convicted again!!
Le Pen has now seven criminal convictions for racist and anti-Jewish incitement, in addition to a conviction for assaulting a female Socialist candidate on camera + admitted have torturing civilians as a soldier in then French-occupied Algeria.
When Le Pen was invited to the UK by the nazi BNP, it had Le Pen protected by troll Warren Bennett, formerly of the neo-nazi terrorist group Combat 18.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/manchester/2004/05/290821.html
Anti-fascist campaigners protesting at the Le Pen conference organised by the nazi BNP in northern England were assaulted by Combat 18 thugs working for the nazi BNP. In fact, one anti-fascist was bludgeoned over the head with iron scaffolding by a BNP thug.
This is the view of the nazi BNP’s London organiser, Nick Eriksen: “Clearly my favoured candidate was Le Pen”.
(Article: ‘The Le Pen result: an analysis’, 28th April 2007)
I guess Nick Eriksen and the BNP also favour Le Pen’s anti-Jewish and racist stances.
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