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IN BRIEF : FRANCE : Rightist Faces Trial Over Anti-Semitism

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From Times staff and wire reports

Far-right French politician Claude Autant-Lara, who outraged France and the European Parliament with anti-Semitic comments, must stand trial for his remarks, court sources in Grasse, France, said. The case was brought last month after the 88-year-old former film director was quoted as denying the World War II Holocaust and regretting that the Nazi genocide had “missed” Simone Veil, a Jew and former president of the Strasbourg-based Parliament.

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