Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and former head of France's far right National Front party (FN), has been fined €30,000 ($34,000 US) for his remarks belittling the Holocaust.
The statements in question include repeated references to the gas chambers as "a detail of history." The same statements led to FN ousting him from the party.
FN is now run by Le Pen's daughter, Marine Le Pen.