France's Le Pen gets suspended jail term for comments on Nazi occupation
A French court gave far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen a three-month suspended prison sentence on Friday and fined him 10,000 euros for saying that the Nazi occupation of France was "not particularly inhumane".
Le Pen was found guilty of "justification of war crimes" and "contesting crimes against humanity" in the trial which opened in December.
It centered around a comment Le Pen made in a 2005 interview with right-wing weekly magazine Rivarol, which angered the government, anti-racism organizations and Jewish groups.
The prosecution had requested that Le Pen be handed a five-month suspended sentence and fined 10,000 euros.
Le Pen has always denied any wrongdoing and did not attend the trial. His defense team argued that his remarks were not part of an interview but of a casual conversation.
"In France, at least, the German occupation was not particularly inhumane, although there were some blunders, inevitable in a country of 550,000 sq km," he was quoted as saying in the magazine......Article conts (-)
A French court gave far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen a three-month suspended prison sentence on Friday and fined him 10,000 euros for saying that the Nazi occupation of France was "not particularly inhumane".
Le Pen was found guilty of "justification of war crimes" and "contesting crimes against humanity" in the trial which opened in December.
It centered around a comment Le Pen made in a 2005 interview with right-wing weekly magazine Rivarol, which angered the government, anti-racism organizations and Jewish groups.
The prosecution had requested that Le Pen be handed a five-month suspended sentence and fined 10,000 euros.
Le Pen has always denied any wrongdoing and did not attend the trial. His defense team argued that his remarks were not part of an interview but of a casual conversation.
"In France, at least, the German occupation was not particularly inhumane, although there were some blunders, inevitable in a country of 550,000 sq km," he was quoted as saying in the magazine......Article conts (-)
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