A French denialist was sentenced today to eight months in prison by the Paris correctional court for articles in which he denies the existence of gas chambers during World War II.
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22/09/2026
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Lusa
Jwith ten convictions in his judicial record, between 2006 and 2025, for contesting the existence of crimes against humanity, Vincent Reynouard was again found guilty for this infringement by articles published in the extreme right-wing weekly Rivarol between October 2024 and January 2025.
In the articles concerned, the author qualifies the gas chambers in the Nazi concentration camps as “Soviet propaganda”.
“By denying the existence of gas chambers, symbol of the extermination of the Jews, the detainee contests the existence of the Shoah through one of its main modalities,” the court considered.
Vincent Reynouard was also found guilty of anti-Semitic injury because he accused in the same texts ‘the Jew’ of being a ‘pathogenic agent’.
Without his own residence, Reynouard lives with the director of Rivarol, Jérôme Bourbon.
As the title director, who sells 1,300 copies a week, Bourbon, who has 22 records in his court record, was sentenced to six months of house arrest.
The two must jointly pay 1,500 euros to each civilian part, the Jewish Observatory of France, the League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism and the European Jewish Organization.
The Shoah (Katastrophe in Hebrew) refers to the systematic extermination by Nazi Germany and its collaborators against the Jewish people during World War II, which led to the elimination of six million Jews, corresponding to two thirds of European Jews and 40% of their world population.