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25.06.03, 23:47
French Publisher faces prison for publishing material denying Holocaust
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LYON, France
An appeals court on Wednesday upheld the six-month prison sentence of an
editor who published works that called into question the scope of the Nazi
extermination of Jews during World War II.
The lawyer for publisher Jean Plantin said he will appeal the decision to a
higher court.
A lower court found Plantin guilty in June 2000 and issued him a six-month
suspended sentence for publishing materials challenging some aspects of the
Holocaust, including the use of gas chambers to kill vast numbers of Jews
during the war. The court also ordered Plantin to stop his activities.
But prosecutors say Plantin continued to publish similar works, thus
violating a condition of his suspended sentence. A court in January revoked
the suspension, a ruling that was upheld on appeal Wednesday.
Plantin has regularly published works by Holocaust revisionists or neo-Nazi
authors, including an article entitled "is Anne Frank's Diary authentic?" by
Robert Faurisson.