'HE IS A RECIDIVIST'

French academic
sentenced again for dissent

 

 

French academic again convicted for Holocaust denial
European Jewish Press Tuesday, 3 October 2006

PARIS — Retired literature professor Robert Faurisson has been convicted for Holocaust denial by a Paris court on Tuesday over remarks he made on Iranian television. Faurisson, 77, well known for his revisionist views, was given a three-month suspended prison term and also fined 7,500 euros.

Speaking on the Sahar 1 Iranian satellite channel in February 2005, Faurisson said “there was never” a single execution gas chamber under the Germans …. So all those millions of tourists who visit Auschwitz are seeing a lie, a falsification.”

Faurisson was found guilty of “complicity in contesting the existence of a crime against humanity.”

It is the fifth time that Faurisson is condemned for the same offence.

Patrick Gaubert, president of LICRA, the French League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, welcomed the court decision. “This gives proof that he says lies. But I am not satisfied with the three-months' suspended prison term as he is a recidivist,” he added.

"Truth can stand by itself. Only a lie needs the support of the state."
— Emil Maier Dorn