Theil convicted of “revisionist questioning” in France
ThoughtCrime: 01/03/06
“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 âquestioningâ.
Theil, who has been convicted before under the Fabius-Gayssot law, (see: France sentences revisionist to Six Months Imprisonment) ran afoul of the law by uttering b efore a reporterâs camera some words on the technical impossibility of the Nazi gas chambersâ existence and operation.
The court sentenced Theil to the following:
- Six monthsâ imprisonment without remission;
- âŹ10,000 fine;
- Payment of the cost of having extracts of the judgement published in the dailies Libération and Le ProgrÚs (Lyon);
- Remittance of âŹ3,000 to each of the eleven plaintiffs;
- Remittance of âŹ1,000 to each of the eleven plaintiffs to cover their legal costs;
- Payment of âŹ90 in procedural fees.
Theil, through the intermediary of his Counsel, MaĂźtre Eric Delcroix, is to lodge an appeal.
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