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Tweets about Auschwitz and Jews: Right-wing activist Ryssen fined

2021-02-05T14:31:23.211Z


The far-right activist Hervé Lalin, known as Ryssen, was sentenced on Friday February 5 to a total fine of 3,200 euros for contesting crimes against humanity, defamation and incitement to hatred in tweets about the Shoah or the Jews. To read also: Guillaume Tabard: "Anti-Semitism and separatism, the detestable collusion" A repeat offender, Lalin was prosecuted for having, in October 2017, publis


The far-right activist Hervé Lalin, known as Ryssen, was sentenced on Friday February 5 to a total fine of 3,200 euros for contesting crimes against humanity, defamation and incitement to hatred in tweets about the Shoah or the Jews.

To read also: Guillaume Tabard: "Anti-Semitism and separatism, the detestable collusion"

A repeat offender, Lalin was prosecuted for having, in October 2017, published on his Twitter account a montage juxtaposing the poster for the film "

The truth if I lie 3

", which features smiling or hilarious characters, and a photo of the infamous portal of entrance to the Nazi Auschwitz extermination camp, adorned with the inscription "

Arbeit macht frei

" ("

work makes free

").

He had also, still in October 2017, tweeted messages accusing the Jews of being responsible for the deaths of “

millions of Christians

” during the Russian Revolution, and of being at the origin of “

the traffic in ecstasy

”.

Ryssen had already been convicted in his absence in these two cases and he was on trial again after opposing these convictions.

He appeared in the box, after being jailed in September under other sentences for similar facts.

If the court considered, concerning the first tweet, that there was no defamation, Hervé Lalin was on the other hand found guilty of “

contesting a crime against humanity

” and sentenced to a 2000 euros fine, as well as '' to a cumulative total of 5,000 euros in damages and legal costs to be paid to the civil parties, the anti-racism associations Licra, the MRAP, the UEJF and J'Accuse.

In the second decision, the court sentenced him for "

defamation

" and "

incitement to hatred or violence

" to 60 day fines of 20 euros, or a total of 1200 euros, which, if they are not paid, turn into imprisonment.

He was also fined 5 euros in damages and interest from the civil parties and 5,000 euros in legal costs.

Hervé Lalin, who has 10 days to appeal, has now been sentenced nearly twenty times, mainly for denial or anti-Semitic comments.

He was convicted again in January for negationism, insults and defamation of an anti-Semitic nature and incitement to hatred against the Jews.

Source: lefigaro

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