Vincent Reynouard arrested in Scots fishing village

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A far better source of information than The Scotsman!

https://jailingopinions.com/realhistory ... -scotland/

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The Scotsman (News you can trust since 1817) posted a lurid and confused article yesterday. The article based mainly on slurs spewed out by
"The Campaign Against Antisemitism."

"'Notorious' Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard arrested in Scots fishing village after posing as a tutor in Fife"

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/ ... fe-3918502

Big Mistake-
two years after fleeing France following a conviction under anti-Nazi laws..
"a conviction under anti-Nazi laws" is an inflamatory slur. The law was under which Mr. Reynouard was the the Gayssot Act; ironically passed
the day before Bastille Day July 13, 1990. The Gayssot Act makes it illegal to question the existence of crimes that fall in the category of crimes against humanity as defined in the London Charter of 1945, on the basis of which Nazi leaders were convicted by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1945–46.


The article continues to quote the crackpot fanatics at the The Campaign Against Antisemitism,
The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) who had been working with French Jewish groups to track Reynouard welcomed the news of his arrest, with a spokesman for the CAA telling the Scottish Daily Express: “Vincent Reynouard is a despicable Holocaust denier who has repeatedly been convicted by French courts.

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Latest news with dates to follow

Anstruther Holocaust denier arrest sparks MP 'lessons' concern

16/11/2022

A Fife MP has suggested there may be “lessons to learn” into why a French Holocaust denier was able to evade being identified by authorities prior to his arrest in a small Scots fishing village.

Vincent Reynouard was apprehended by Police Scotland officers in the Anstruther area of Fife on Thursday, November 10, on a Trade and Co-operation Agreement warrant issued in France, two years after he fled the country following a conviction under strict anti-Nazi laws.

The 53-year-old, who has multiple convictions in his native country spanning decades for comments he has made denying the existence of the Holocaust and distortion of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, had allegedly been working with children under a false name as a private tutor, according to reports in France.

Reynouard’s convictions date back as far as 1991, when he was sentenced for distributing leaflets denying the existence of the gas chambers among high school students.

A recent analysis of the French far right by newspaper Liberation identified Reynouard as a key member of a network of propagandists ‘dedicated to the denial and distortion of the Holocaust’.

His name has also been linked to an open investigation into a vandalism attack on the Oradour-sur-Glane Memorial Centre, which commemorates the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, in August of 2020.

Wendy Chamberlain, Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife, said there are “questions to be asked” on whether Reynouard underwent any criminal records checks before he reportedly gained work as a tutor.

The MP told The Herald: “I learned of this situation through media reports yesterday. I know there is concern locally but am grateful for the smooth running of the police operation yesterday.

“Following these events there are questions to be asked about whether Mr Reynouard had appropriate criminal record checks before reportedly working with children as a tutor. There may also be lessons to learn from this case in terms of why he wasn’t identified by the authorities sooner.”

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) confirmed to The Herald that it is acting on behalf of the French authorities in relation to an extradition request in respect of Reynouard.

A COPFS spokesman said: “The Lord Advocate has a statutory responsibility to act on behalf of authorities who make extradition requests through the Scottish courts. The thorough and proper execution of these responsibilities is essential to the rule of law and preservation of Scottish interests in its relationships with other international jurisdictions.

“Mr Reynouard appeared from custody at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on November 10. He was remanded in custody following that hearing.

“A procedural hearing is scheduled for November 17 with an evidential hearing on November 24.”

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/231 ... s-concern/

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French scholar Vincent Reynouard arrested in Scotland — Held for Extradition for Though Crimes in France

Posted on November 16, 2022

French revisionist scholar Vincent Reynouard was arrested in Scotland on Thursday 10th November. He is presently in an Edinburgh prison cell, awaiting a court hearing on 24th November to determine whether he should be extradited to France, where he would be jailed under that country’s laws restricting historical and scientific enquiry.

Vincent Reynouard built his scholarly reputation with a detailed re-examination of what had been termed the ‘Massacre of Oradour’, and went on to become one of the world’s leading sceptical investigators of the ‘Holocaust’. Francophone readers should visit his excellent website.

British and American readers might be shocked that a specialist squad of police from SO15 – the Counter-Terrorism Command, directed from London – swooped on a small Scottish village to arrest this 53-year-old scholar, who is not accused of anything that would be a crime in the UK.

Yet in fact this is simply the latest example – though an especially important example – of an increasing trend across Europe, where politicised courts and prosecutors, aided by politicised police forces and intelligence agencies, are seeking to crush any dissent and enforce a quasi-religious obedience to one particular view of 20th century history.

The question that should immediately occur to any educated European is: why?

Why should our rulers be so afraid of what remains a small minority of scholars who – inspired by revisionist pioneers Robert Faurisson in France and Arthur Butz in the USA – have persisted in raising serious questions about the alleged murder of six million Jews, in unfeasible homicidal gas chambers, on the undocumented alleged orders of Adolf Hitler?

Any other area of history with such blatant evidential problems would have attracted dozens of academic sceptics. Yet with a handful of honourable exceptions, the academic world has not only been cowed into silence, but has queued up to accept lucrative commissions and tenured positions promoting the new religion of Holocaustianity.

Our rulers approach has been the well-tried one of ‘carrot and stick’.

The carrot is the promise of well-remunerated posts in universities and charities, combined with fat cheques from publishers, newspapers, television stations and movie studios.

The stick (increasingly used during the last quarter-century) has involved heavy fines and prison sentences. In Germany, the 94-year-old Ursula Haverbeck has been sentenced to another year in prison, and is expected to begin her incarceration any day now. Her equally courageous compatriot Horst Mahler (now 86) has at the last count spent about fifteen years in prison since his 70th birthday, again for the ‘crimes’ of publishing articles and books, and giving interviews about this forbidden area of 20th century history. And in the USA the exiled German chemist Germar Rudolf faces determined efforts to have him extradited to Germany, where he would certainly be handed a long jail sentence.

So far the UK has no such specific law criminalising historical revisionism, and several British historians, including leftists and liberals such as Timothy Garton Ash, have commendably condemned all such laws.

In 2008 a London court rejected the German government’s request for the extradition of Australian revisionist Dr Fredrick Töben under a European Arrest Warrant. Will a similar situation protect Vincent Reynouard?

New extradition arrangements post-Brexit have only been in force since 11 pm on 31st December 2020, so while we can see the statutory position, we have little in the way of case law (on either side of the border).

I am not a lawyer, but I was closely involved in research work for the Töben case, and have had good reason more recently to refresh my memory and understanding of the legal position regarding EU citizens travelling or resident in the UK.

Traditionally the UK’s position on extradition (as was once common internationally) was based on two essential principles. One was the existence of an extradition treaty with the country concerned, which entailed mutual respect for legal systems. For example, the lack of such a treaty with Spain (due to political embarrassment over the presence of numerous anti-Franco exiles, including terrorists, in the UK) meant that Spain became notorious for decades as a refuge for British criminals – i.e. non-political criminals such as bank robbers.

Once such a treaty was in place, the essential principle was ‘dual criminality’, i.e. that the offence of which the requested fugitive was charged should also be an offence in the country from which extradition was sought. Naturally the criminal laws involved would rarely be identical, and it was up to the courts to resolve whether ‘dual criminality’ applied.

In a case such as that of Vincent Reynouard, this would once have presented a problem for the authorities. It would have been necessary to prove not only that he had committed ‘Holocaust denial’ (not in itself of course an offence in the UK), but that he had done so in a manner which also contravened some UK law (such as the laws against “inciting racial hatred”).

As readers can easily imagine, the “dual criminality” requirement allowed legal loopholes to be exploited in any number of criminal cases, especially those which involved wealthy crooks, or IRA terrorists who had a well-funded support network, and whose extradition from European countries (or the USA) to the UK was occasionally blocked.

So even setting aside our enemies’ broader political agenda, there were (from the general public’s viewpoint) apparent practical advantages to the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) system, which after long discussion replaced the traditional extradition laws, and took effect in the UK on 1st January 2004.

Under the EAW there was a fundamental assumption that all legal systems within the EU could trust each other to respect natural justice, etc.; and there was no need to establish “dual criminality”.

In place of the latter principle, the EAW established a list of “framework offences”. Once it could be shown that a fugitive was accused of anything that fell within these quite broadly defined “framework offences”, he would be extradited very swiftly in what amounted to a “rubber-stamp” procedure even though it formally took place in court. There was no provision in most cases for the courts to investigate the full circumstances of the alleged ‘crime’ before extradition under an EAW.

One of the framework offences was “racism and xenophobia”. However, so far as ‘Holocaust denial’ was concerned, there remained a potential loophole.

This loophole only existed because of objections that were raised in the House of Lords during passage of the legislation that wrote the EAW system into UK law.

Under repeated cross-examination by peers, the Home Office minister in the Lords (Baroness Scotland) gave a specific assurance that the EAW would not amount to a back door criminalisation of Holocaust denial in the UK.

The position was to be as follows. If any element of the ‘offence’ of ‘Holocaust denial’ had taken place in the UK, it would be deemed to fall under UK law and therefore (unless it could be shown that it also involved other existing crimes under UK law) extradition would not take place.

A ‘Holocaust denier’ would only be extradited under a European Arrest Warrant if it could be shown by the requesting country’s authorities that the ‘crime’ had been committed purely and simply within the jurisdiction of the country concerned.

The specific example given to Parliament was of someone who had made a speech in Cologne market place denying the ‘Holocaust’, and had then escaped to the UK before being apprehended. In such a case (provided other boxes were ticked, such as the offence potentially attracting a prison sentence of more than 12 months) the requested person would be extradited.

However, if someone had produced a magazine, or a book, or a website, or an online video, etc., ‘denying the Holocaust’, then such a person would not be extradited. Even though part of the ‘offence’ might have been committed in France, Germany or wherever, part of it would also have been committed in the UK.

The minister’s precise words to Parliament included the following assurance:
“Holocaust denial …is a very particular offence. We would say that those engaging in that endeavour in part in this country would not be capable of being extradited as the offence would in part have allegedly been committed in this country, and in this country it is not an offence. So we would not extradite those involved in it.”

Such was the difficulty for the German authorities in the Töben case. They issued a European Arrest Warrant, and Töben was arrested while merely passing through London’s Heathrow Airport on 1st October 2008. He was jailed pending extradition, which at first was expected to be a ‘rubber-stamp’ process.

However, on closer examination (once Töben was represented by extradition specialist Kevin Lowry-Mullins rather than by a duty solicitor) it was found that the German request was insufficiently detailed. The reason for such vagueness was obvious: the authorities both in Berlin and London were well aware that Töben’s alleged criminal conduct did not fall within the very limited definition of ‘Holocaust denial crimes’ for which people could be extradited from the UK. To do so would be a flagrant betrayal of pledges to Parliament during passage of the EAW into UK law.

Consequently, the legal difficulty (and political embarrassment) was colossal. After the Westminster magistrate ruled against extradition, the British and German authorities swiftly dropped their appeal, resulting in Töben’s release.

So the question in 2022 becomes whether the new arrangements that have replaced the EAW post-Brexit, in relation to extradition from or to the UK, are in any way similar in their application to Vincent’s case.

These new laws were agreed as part of the ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ between the UK and the EU which regulates the whole spectrum of such relations post-Brexit. It passed into UK law in the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020, which took effect at 11 pm on 31st December 2020.

Broadly speaking this replicates the EAW, in that it is intended to fast-track extradition (in each direction) between the UK and EU countries, and is similar to the existing arrangements that the EU has with Norway and Iceland.

Specifically, there are very limited grounds on which it will be possible to argue that Vincent should not be extradited, and there is a presumption that the whole procedure should be completed swiftly.

It is potentially important that the new law – unlike the EAW system – does not specifically state that the UK and EU nations have “mutual trust” and “mutual confidence” in one other’s legal systems.

Moreover it is stated in the new law that any extradition should be “proportionate” and in particular should avoid long periods of pre-trial detention.

One potential argument is that the French legal system is so heavily politicised in respect of thought-criminals (especially ‘Holocaust deniers’) that there are serious grounds for believing that Vincent Reynouard’s fundamental rights would be imperilled by extradition.

There will be extensive updates here at the Real History blog on the Vincent Reynouard case as it develops. And we shall very soon be reporting on a broader new initiative to advance revisionist scholarship with the aid of a new generation of European intellectual adventurers (to use Professor Robert Faurisson’s celebrated term). — Peter Rushton

http://cafe.nfshost.com/?p=8214

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The Scotsman (News you can trust since 1817) posted a lurid and confused article yesterday. The article based mainly on slurs spewed out by
"The Campaign Against Antisemitism."

"'Notorious' Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard arrested in Scots fishing village after posing as a tutor in Fife"

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/ ... fe-3918502
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They make it sound like "Holocaust Denial" is a real crime. It isn't - But if the Holo-dogma is your de facto religion those 'denying' it are of course like heretics inspired by the devil to you. And that you don't burn them at the stake serves as proof on how tolerant, humane and liberal you are.

Sorry to interrupt you... But in that case you are not better than any archaic religion, cult or totalitarian regime... you probably will claim to despise.


"The campaign against Antisemitism".... Yeah, right... thinking six million Jews weren't gassed is proof of hating all Jews because of racial reasons now.

It's the same as with calling people "Racist" ... Which actually is:
Really
Annoying
Communist
Inspired
Silencing
Tactic

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Dates

French Holocaust denier arrested in Scotland remanded for extradition hearing

17/11/2022

A Holocaust denier who has been on the run from French authorities has been remanded in custody following a hearing at a Scottish court.

Vincent Reynouard, 53, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday after being arrested earlier this month in Anstruther, Fife.

The Frenchman was convicted under anti-Nazi laws across the Channel, where he was given a four-month jail term in November 2020 and a further six months in January 2021.

Appearing before Sheriff Norman McFadyen by video link, Reynouard spoke only to confirm his identity.

He listened to proceedings from HMP Edinburgh through a French interpreter.

During the five-minute hearing, Andrew Docherty told the court his client wished to instruct another lawyer.

“He has identified such an agent,” he told the court.

“I would also on his behalf ask for the matter to be postponed for further preparation.”

Procurator fiscal Jennifer Johnston told the hearing she had no issue with the arrangement, and Reynouard was told he would next be before the court on December 8 ahead of the full extradition hearing in February.

Sheriff McFadyen told him: “You will remain in custody in the meantime.”

Holocaust denial has been a criminal offence in France since 1990, and Reynouard has been convicted on numerous occasions.

His latest conviction was in relation to a series of antisemitic posts on social media.

https://www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/natio ... n-hearing/

French Holocaust denier appears in Scottish court

17/11/2022

Reynouard was arrested by Police Scotland officers at an address in Anstruther on Thursday 10 November. He is reported to have been living in the town under a false name and working as an online tutor.

He made his second appearance at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday, via video link from prison. The court was told that the former teacher had been granted legal aid and was appointing a solicitor.

Remain in prison

His current solicitor Andrew Docherty told the sheriff his client wanted to instruct another lawyer to act in the case.

The sheriff told Reynouard he would have to remain in prison until further proceedings on 8 December, with a full hearing on the extradition request scheduled for 23 February next year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-ed ... e-63647612

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Support the imprisoned hero Vincent Reynouard by writing to him!

Vincent Reynouard is currently detained in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he is preparing his defense against the terrible cabal mounted by international Jewry to extradite him to the French Republic.

We call on our readers to give him their moral support by mail:

Mr. Vincent REYNOUARD
HMP Edinburgh
Scottish Prison Service
33 Stenhouse Road
EH113LN EDINBURGH
Scotland
United Kingdom
Cell number : 160071

You are not required to nominally sign your letter if you wish to remain anonymous.

The receipt of numerous letters will indicate to the prison authorities, then to the British government, that Vincent Reynouard is not alone, contrary to what the French authorities claim. It is always embarrassing for a state to have to detain a man for political reasons under protests from abroad.

Source: https://dempart.homes/soutenez-le-heros-vincent-reynouard-en-lui-ecrivant/

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The cell number looks a bit short... But how long is it expected that they will keep him reachable under that postal address?

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The cell number looks a bit short... But how long is it expected that they will keep him reachable under that postal address?

Send him a postcard or a letter and you will see...

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Nazi sympathisers...

Nazi sympathisers using Scots Prison Service to fund lifestyle of French Holocaust denier

Vincent Reynouard, 53, was arrested in Anstruther, Fife, in a joint operation involving Scottish and French authorities.

25 NOV 2022

Nazi sympathisers are using the Scottish Prison Service to fund the lifestyle of a notorious French Holocaust denier.

Vincent Reynouard, 53, was arrested in Anstruther, Fife, in a joint operation involving Scottish and French authorities on November 10. Since then, the far-right have been banding together to send the Frenchman money and letters of encouragement to his prison cell in Edinburgh.

Following a hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last week, Reynouard was remanded in custody at HMP Edinburgh ahead of an extradition hearing in February. He had boasted online about how donors were bankrolling his exiled existence and had been the subject of a two-year search for his whereabouts led by France's Central Office for the Fight against Crimes against Humanity and Hate Crimes.

Since his arrest, the hashtags #LibertePourReynouard and #JeSuisVincent have appeared on Twitter attempting to encourage others to write letters addressed to his Edinburgh jail cell and fundraise. One tweet lists the address of HMP Edinburgh, where Reynouard is being held, alongside his cell number.

It also details how supporters can send money to him via the Scottish Prison Service Prisoner Funds Central, an online tool which enables funds to be sent to "friends and loved ones who are currently in custody" in Scotland.

The tweet reads: "To help Vincent financially, which he really needs right now, there are two ways. Pounds sterling can be sent directly to him in cash at the postal address indicated above, but the limit must not exceed 50 pounds sterling for each transaction."

The details have also been included in an article titled "All about Vincent Reynouard!" by French far-right website Jeune Nation, named after a French nationalist and neo-fascist far-right movement founded in 1949. Reynouard was convicted under anti-Nazi laws across the Channel, where he was given a four-month jail term in November 2020 and a further six months in January 2021.

Holocaust denial has been a criminal offence in France since 1990, and Reynouard has been convicted on numerous occasions. He was given a four-month jail term in November 2020 and a further six months in January 2021.

His latest conviction was in relation to a series of anti-Semitic posts on social media. Reynouard claimed he was able to evade authorities due to the steady stream of donations he had received from his supporters, as well as income he received from working a few hours a week as an online maths tutor.

He described his "very simple life in a small room creating videos, cycling, reading and meditating" while eating "the same food every day (fresh vegetables and Weetabix)" financed entirely by donations.

A Scottish Prison Service spokesperson said: "We don't comment on individuals in our care. A Prisoner Funds Account, which is available in each establishment, holds funds, which SPS are responsible for, on behalf of prisoners, including personal cash, wages, and PIN phone balances.

"Every individual in our care has access to this system, whereby money can be transferred in by friends and family to be used to purchase PIN phone top-ups, sundry items, and canteen products. One method of paying funds into a prisoner's local account is by bank transfer, for which an online reference generator is used.

"Guidance on this is available on the SPS website, including the upper limit of £50 per transfer. In addition to this, local limits may also be set for cash handed in, or sent in, at the discretion of the Governor of each establishment.

"Transactions can also be monitored for security purposes where intelligence deems appropriate."

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scot ... n-28582962

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Life Style? I guess there are some legal cost to cover first...

Not sure, how reliable the postal service is. In my experience postal workers are prone to steal once they can ID money in a postal item.

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In Scotland politicians, academia and media are all very big on "human rights" and support of the United Nations. Let's see if they practice what they preach in regards to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in particular Article 19.
http://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal ... an-rights/

Scotland needs more people of the calibre of A P Laurie.
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=14704

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Jeune Nation Activists Protest & Demand Freedom for Vincent Renouard, Revisionist Writer & Political Prisoner



Campagnes de soutien « Liberté pour Vincent Reynouard »

Posted on November 26, 2022

Throughout France, activists and sympathizers of the CLAN and the Nationalists showed their support for Vincent Reynouard.

The historian specializing in German National Socialism has been persecuted for years because of his historical work which calls into question the conclusions of the international military tribunal in Nuremberg. He is currently in pre-trial detention in Scotland where he is awaiting his probable extradition to France.

We demand his immediate release, an end to the charges against him, and freedom of research for all historians.

Each week in Rivarol, we will have a thought for Vincent Reynouard, regretting the silence of most media about him.

For 30 years, his total commitment to the Truth has not been without consequences on his mental state and his personal life, which is complex in fact.

http://cafe.nfshost.com/?p=8298

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Vincent Reynouard: Holocaust denier expects to spend ‘years’ in prison

December 2, 2022

A Holocaust denier being held on remand in Scotland has admitted he expects to spend at least “five years or more” in prison if France’s extradition request is successful.

Vincent Reynouard is currently on remand in custody at HMP Edinburgh ahead of an extradition hearing in February.

Reports in France suggest that authorities there are seeking Reynouard’s extradition for spreading revisionist propaganda.

The 53-year-old was arrested in Anstruther, Fife, on Thursday, November 10, following a two-year search for his whereabouts led by France’s Central Office for the Fight against Crimes against Humanity and Hate Crimes, which began after the memorial of Oradour-sur-Glane, where Nazi troops killed and destroyed an entire village in June of 1944, was vandalised by graffiti which read ‘Reynouard is right’.

Holocaust denial has been a criminal offence in France since 1990 and Reynouard’s convictions date back as far as 1991, when he was sentenced for distributing leaflets denying the existence of the gas chambers among high school students.

His latest conviction was in relation to a series of antisemitic posts on social media. He was given a four-month jail term in November 2020 and a further six months in January 2021.

In a letter from his prison cell addressed to French nationalist and far-right weekly magazine Rivarol, seen by The Herald, Reynouard thanked his followers for their support and said he is in “good spirits”.

He writes that his fellow prisoners know who he is thanks to his appearance in a tabloid newspaper, which has led them to quiz him on “what revisionism is”, which he says he has explained to them “succinctly”.

He asks his supporters if they can send him books and stationary such as pencils and erasers, as he attempts to write his “memoirs” while imprisoned; memoirs which he proposes be published “in excerpts” by the far-right magazine.

“These memoirs are part of my revisionist mission, a mission which consists in giving answers to others. Hence my desire to hide nothing, including the events that argue against me. Indeed, a true story is much richer in lessons than a pro domo plea or—worse—than a novel built for its own advantage” he notes.

His decision to write his memoirs, Reynouard says, is down to his belief that his “many revisionist videos” will see him spend the next few years in prison in his native France, should he be extradited.

He writes: “Why this decision? Because after my arrest, four days ago, by the Scottish authorities, I have no illusions: the French authorities who, on June 25, 2021, issued a European arrest warrant against me, will obtain my extradition. Back in France, I will serve several prison sentences for “disputing crimes against humanity”.

“In total, these sentences exceed 24 months (29 months to be exact). There will undoubtedly be other convictions for the same reason, because since my exile in Great Britain, in June 2015, I have published many revisionist videos likely to fall under the Gayssot law. Several are not time-barred, either having been published less than a year ago or already being sued. Therefore, I expect to stay in prison for five years or more.”

In the letter, Reynouard also notes that his latest book, on Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, “should appear in the next few days”, and believes that the news of his imprisonment and possible extradition “constitute first-rate promotional material” for it.

Meanwhile, in respect of his extradition, the Frenchman says his “former Scottish lawyer” told him that “a strong argument can be made” against it being successful.

He writes: “Regarding the extradition, a preliminary hearing will take place on December 8, because I have had a new lawyer since November 17, Mr. Paul Dunne, a lawyer from Edinburgh. He is an extradition specialist. From what my former Scottish lawyer told me, a strong argument can be made against my extradition: the “ misdemeanor ” committed in France is not considered a misdemeanor here. Therefore, it is possible that the European arrest warrant does not apply here. Hence the need for a more specialized lawyer.”

News of Reynouard’s letter to French far-right weekly magazine Rivarol from his Edinburgh jail cell comes after The Herald revealed that his supporters have been banding together to send him funds while campaigning for his release from detention in Scotland on social media.

The Frenchman previously claimed that he was able to avoid having to surrender to the authorities in Scotland while on the run thanks to the steady stream of donations he had received from his supporters.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/231 ... rs-prison/

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French Holocaust denier rejects extradition move from Scotland

Issued on: 08/12/2022

Edinburgh – A prominent French Holocaust denier, who fled the country after being convicted under anti-Nazi laws, does not consent to be extradited to France, an Edinburgh court heard Thursday.

Vincent Reynouard, 53, who was excused from attending his preliminary extradition hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, was arrested in the fishing town of Anstruther, just north of the Scottish capital, in November.

"Mr Reynouard does not consent to extradition to France," his lawyer, who asked not to be named, told the court.

"I was instructed at about 6:00 pm (1800 GMT) last night and I do require some time to consider the matter.

"There is a matter that is, I think, of legal significance that I need more time to consider."

Sheriff Norman McFadyen agreed to continue the case until January 12. A full extradition hearing is due to take place in February.

Reynouard had reportedly been living in Anstruther under a false name.

He had been sought by France's central office for combating crimes against humanity, known by its initials OCLCH.

Holocaust denial has been a criminal offence in France since 1990, and Reynouard has been convicted on numerous occasions.

As a student in 1991, he was convicted for distributing revisionist literature.

In 2001, he was suspended as a school maths teacher for printing and distributing Holocaust-denying pamphlets and setting homework involving counting concentration camp victims.

In 2007, while working as a chemical engineer, Reynouard was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 10,000 euros for Holocaust denial after writing a pamphlet claiming the death of six million Jews during World War II was "impossible".

He was handed a four-month prison sentence in France in November 2020 and a further six-month term in January 2021 concerning a series of anti-Semitic posts on social media.

In August 2020, a memorial in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, the site of the worst Nazi atrocity in France, was defaced with slogans including the words "Reynouard is right".

He had questioned the massacre in several videos posted online.

Reynouard first appeared in court in Scotland after his arrest last month and remains in custody.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 ... m-scotland