Jerome Bourbon has been sentenced for a fifteen times, especially for provocation to hatred, challenge of crime against humanity and racist insult.
Le Monde with AFP
The director of the weekly far-right weekly Rivarol, Jérôme Bourbon, was sentenced, Friday, December 10, to 8,000 euros of fine, with possibility of imprisonment in case of non-payment, for dispute of crime against humanity and provocation to hatred against the Jews.
Fabrice (Jerome) Bourbon, 49, was sentenced to 80 days to 100 euros, for remarks in a video published on October 3, 2020 on the YouTube Rivarol channel. The video has been removed since. Jérôme Bourbon commented on the news and evoked the raid of the Vél ‘of HIV, during which 13,000 Jews were arrested on 16 and 17 July 1942 by French police and gendarmes before being gathered with the velodrome of Winter to be sent to concentration camp.
Jerome Bourbon declared in particular: “Once again, I do not say that to validate what happened, I simply say that we often omission, finally saying that it was the fight against the Jews, etc., while the French Marshal’s French government has always opposed any persecution or injury to the French Jews. “
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The court recognizes him guilty of negation, stressing, among other things, to “assert the belief that the French Jews were saved by the Petain Marshal contains both the negation of the participation of the latter in the extermination policy of the extermination of the Jews led by the Nazi (…) regime and the death of those who succumbed to these abuses “.
In the same video, Jérôme Bourbon approached the movement of “yellow vests” and the pandemic of Covid-19, referring to the “financial, ideological” republic and “his lobbies”, then to the “Jewish question ” “If we do not designate the enemy, we miss his duty,” said Rivarol Director.
The defendant resumes a “notorious anti-Semitic prejudice” and presents the Jews as an “enemy” while speaking of a “war to win”, which constitutes provocation to hatred and violence against the Jewish community, Judge the Tribunal.
Jérôme Bourbon has however been coupled with the prosecutions concerning an article by Rivarol of 2 September 20, for a question of procedure. The parquet had required six months of firm imprisonment.
Jerome Bourbon has been sentenced about fifteen times, especially for provocation to hatred, challenge of crime against humanity and racist insult.
In November 2020, he was sentenced to three months imprisonment and fines for publications deemed anti-Semitic.