France: Racism and fascism (2)
01 January 1991
France: Racism and fascism
artdoc April=1995
French Holocaust denier acquitted
A representative for the Public Prosecutor, Jean-Pierre Pommier,
has upheld an earlier decision which led to the acquittal of
French Holocaust denier, Alain Guionnet.
Guionnet, the editor of Révision, was charged with denying the
Holocaust after he published an article entitled `Auschwitz:
125,000 deaths'. In March 1994, Mr. Guionnet was acquitted on the
grounds that since the Nuremberg tribunal did not `indicate the
number of those who had died at Auschwitz, to claim that there
were only 125,000 deaths there was not to deny the Holocaust'.
There will be a further hearing (Jewish Chronicle 30.9.94).
IRR European Race Audit, Bulletin no 11, December 1994. Contact:
Liz Fekete, Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London
WC1X 9HS. Tel: 0171 837 0041