French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson told a Paris court Tuesday he believes that the extermination of six million Jews by the Nazis in WWII is a "historical lie."
Faurisson made the statement before the court where he is suing former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter for defamation, for saying that he had "falsified history." Faurisson was recently convicted of denying the Holocaust in an interview he gave to an Iranian television station in 2005. He was given a three-month probationary sentence and fined.
Faurisson became notorious after the publication of three letters of his letters in French newspaper Le Monde in 1978 – 1979, in which he denied that Jews had been systematically murdered by the Nazis. He was subsequently removed from his academic position. In 1989 his jaw was broken during one of a number of physical attacks that have been made against him.
Faurisson made the statement before the court where he is suing former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter for defamation, for saying that he had "falsified history." Faurisson was recently convicted of denying the Holocaust in an interview he gave to an Iranian television station in 2005. He was given a three-month probationary sentence and fined.
Faurisson became notorious after the publication of three letters of his letters in French newspaper Le Monde in 1978 – 1979, in which he denied that Jews had been systematically murdered by the Nazis. He was subsequently removed from his academic position. In 1989 his jaw was broken during one of a number of physical attacks that have been made against him.