Le Pen sentenced for Nazi remarks
A Paris court gave French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen a three-month suspended prison sentence and a $14,500 fine for denying the brutality of the Nazis’ World War II occupation of France.
Le Pen was convicted of complicity in justifying war crimes and in contesting a crime against humanity for comments he made during a 2005 interview.
The Rivarol weekly had quoted Le Pen as saying: “In France at least, the German occupation was not particularly inhumane, even if there were a few blunders, which is inevitable in a country” its size.
Le Pen has been convicted of racism or anti-Semitism at least six times, in one case after calling the Nazi gas chambers “a detail of the history of the Second World War.”
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