Holocaust Denier’s Sentence: Visit 5 Ex-Nazi Camps, and Write About It
Defending Mr. Dieudonné, he said the Holocaust was "one of the only historical facts
that cannot be called into question." At trial in 2015, online statements Mr. Louis made in support of the French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen were found to have violated a law against the minimization, justification or approval of the Holocaust.
22, 2017
A former lawmaker in Belgium convicted of Holocaust denial in 2015 was handed an unusual sentence this week: The Brussels Court of Appeal ordered him to visit one Nazi concentration camp a year for the next five years
and write about his experiences, according to the former lawmaker and local news reports.
She called his sentence "unusual." "Don’t see this as one crazy guy who happens to be a Holocaust
denier," said Ms. Lipstadt, who opposes the criminalization of Holocaust denial.
rmination and this questioning is prohibited by Belgian law." Ms. Lipstadt said
that defense was common among Holocaust deniers and others on the far right who "market" their beliefs by posing as reasonable people who are simply asking hard questions. that but I have questioned the essential role of the gas chambers in this exte
Mr. Laurent was given a six-month suspended jail sentence and fined over $20,000 at his 2015 trial, which centered on online statements he made
that questioned the number of Jews killed in gas chambers during the Holocaust.
" Mr. Louis wrote in an email on Wednesday night.
that To summarize, I have invited the people who follow me to ask about Jean-Marie Le Pen’s condemnation of his remarks with regard to the gas chambers, which he considered to be a ‘detail’ of the Second World War,
