French Court Sentences Holocaust Denier Vincent Reynouard to Prison

A Paris court has sentenced French Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard to eight months in prison for denying the existence of Nazi gas chambers during World War II. The 57-year-old was prosecuted for contesting crimes against humanity following the publication of several articles in the far-right weekly Rivarol in 2024 and 2025. In these articles, Reynouard described the gas chambers in Nazi camps as "Soviet propaganda" and fabricated accounts, asserting that large-scale gas chambers capable of holding a thousand people were a "technical impossibility." The court ruled that questioning the existence of the gas chambers, a primary tool for the extermination of European Jews, amounts to denying the reality of the Shoah. Reynouard was also found guilty of antisemitic insult for calling Jews "pathogens," which the magistrates interpreted as equating them to an "infectious germ source." This is not Reynouard's first offense; he has been convicted ten times since 2006, primarily for denying crimes against humanity. In France, denying crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi regime has been a criminal offense since the 1990 Gayssot Law.