Heresy in Twenty-First Century France
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The French anti-revisionist law
The French anti-revisionist law dates from July 13, 1990. It is known by various names: “Gayssot law”, “Fabius-Gayssot law”, “Faurisson law”, “lex Faurissonia” or “article 24bis” (of the law of July 29, 1881 on press freedom). It provides for a prison sentence of up to a year as well as a maximum fine of €45,000…
Theil convicted of “revisionist questioning” in France
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On January 3, by decision of the high court of Lyon (6th chamber, where press-related cases are heard; presiding judge: Fernand Schir), Mr Georges Theil, a former elected official from the Front National, was found guilty, under the Fabius-Gayssot Act (July 13, 1990), of a revisionist…
France Sentences Revisionist to Six Months Imprisonment
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On October 5, 2005, by decision of the high court of Limoges, François Cassasus-Builhé presiding, Georges Theil was convicted under Frances Loi Gayssot (anti-revisionist law). Mr Theil's crime was having sent a few individuals copies of the book that he published in 2002, under the pseudonym…
Persecution in France for “The Waffen-SS: Innocent at Oradour”
On June 9, 2004, the appeal court in Limoges sentenced me to two years in prison (whereof 18 months on probation) and a fine of 3000 Euro for the crime of “approving a war crime.” It also declared the confiscation of parts of my archive, which was seized in 2001, to be lawful. The reason…
Le Pen’s Notorious “Detail” Remark About World War II
Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of France's National Front party, stunned the world on April 21, when he came in second in the French presidential race, to challenge the incumbent Jacques Chirac in the May 5 runoff election. Press coverage of the veteran nationalist political figure has been more than unfriendly; he has been maligned with…
Preface to Heresy in Twenty-First Century France
Historical revisionism, the great intellectual adventure of the late twentieth century, continues at the dawn of the twenty-first, as perilous as ever. But what is known of the revisionists? What stuff are they made of, these unsubdued people who, in France or abroad, persist in braving the written and unwritten laws? They are hunted, caught…
Police Search!
Today at 7.45 am four police officers carried out an extensive search of my house. They acted under a warrant issued by the Parisian examining magistrate (juge d'instruction) Jean-Paul Valat. Three of them had come from Paris and the fourth from the local Vichy police station. They found none of the objects for which they…
Garaudy fined $40,000 in France
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A Paris court ordered French philosopher Roger Garaudy to pay 240,000 francs ($40,000) for challenging the existence of homicidal gas chambers in his book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. Garaudy, an 84-year-old convert to Islam, was found guilty of breaking a 1990 law that makes…
Revisionist Editor fined in France
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A French court fined a magazine editor $5,200 for publishing revisionist articles. Gabriel Andres, editor of Rot un Wiss (Red and White) questioned the existence of “gas chambers” at Struthof-Natzweiler, a concentration camp in Alsace. Supporters of the orthodox Holocaust story believe that SS Professor August…
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