In France, Jean-Marie Le Pen Fined Again for Dismissing Holocaust as 'Detail'
The Guardian (Britain) <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001q7uzwmj0qZVLQY3ut5VZKpouztpikCRv8C0nxm9qjvde wVqAtnSvPNEPX7Lr_oDPOZ4_44e0oybLywxIVWLbozx1vqfaQsPQilcVqOb9lMF00OS5VXwtmAi9 EuU9bor5RRbQ5qtHdYrZjqVhsHWoht6fj0YD2lJU-KnanPSra8su7KgDUmmRbol-d6XZoKAdf9A_ UwMYCB7b_cydp6errXNmze95f-uk1qZy31j6PkUiBIyG0npQSWAEWTIEgqkhF2VZyzaedJZHXcGD QDgF5ryHQMWNZzi3&c=9azbQ-pcv0Cs49aKtRiSGROG2GxYCJUxdRAM97FOysofxZY45uM3AA==& ch=d29GnmgAaWpBUEpXFYvwM2LbJZ73kmveIKm3RHkvdQObxtYZNwKShQ==> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/06/jean-marie-le-pen-fined-again-d ismissing-holocaust-detail Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former leader of France's far-right Front National, has once again been convicted of contesting crimes against humanity for saying the gas chambers used to kill Jews in the Holocaust were only a "detail" of history. A Paris court fined Le Pen 30,000 euros [$34,000] on Wednesday for the comments he reiterated on a French television programme in April last year. Le Pen, 87, had told the TV interviewer he had no regrets over calling the gas chambers a mere detail of the history of the second world war, saying he stood by that view "because it's the truth". Le Pen already has two civil court convictions for making the same comments about gas chambers. He first stated the view in 1987, and in later years repeated it in Germany and then in the European parliament.
