ThoughtCrime: 09/16/89
Revisionist Historian Suffers Savage Beating
One of Europe's most prominent Holocaust revisionists,
Dr. Robert Faurisson, was
severely injured in a nearly fatal attack on September 16, 1989. After spraying
a stinging gas into his face, temporarily blinding him, three assailants
punched Dr. Faurisson to the ground and then repeatedly kicked him in the
face and chest. "He was conscious, but he couldn't speak," said a fire fighter
who gave Faurisson first aid. "His jaw was smashed. They destroyed his face."
The 60-year-old scholar, who had been out walking his poodle in a park
in his home town of Vichy, suffered a broken jaw and severe head injuries.
Physicians operated for four and a half hours to repair his jaw and treat
a broken rib and badly swollen face.
A group calling itself, "The Sons of the Memory of the Jews"
claimed responsibility for the savage attack. In a statement, the group
threatened: "Professor Faurisson is the first, but will not be the last.
Let those who deny the Shoah [Holocaust] beware." While French police officially
would acknowledge only that "three young Jewish activists from Paris" had
carried out the assault, the attackers are strongly suspected to have been
with the Tagar/Betar organization.
Prominent individuals and organizations in France, along with
the country's most influential daily newspaper, Le Monde, condemned
the attack. However, veteran Nazi-hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld sought
to justify the crime. "Someone who has provoked the Jewish community for
years should expect this sort of thing," Serge Klarsfeld said.
Professor Faurisson is best known for his works, The 'Problem
of the Gas Chambers' and Is the Diary of Anne Frank Genuine?
Adapted from: Mark Weber, The Zionist Terror Network (1993) Institute for
Historical Review, PO Box 2739, Newport Beach, CA 92659, also as reported
in The Globe and Mail, Sept. 18, 1989, Le Monde, Sept.19, 1989, Sunday Telegraph,
Sept. 24, 1989.
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