The far-right polemist had been condemned on appeal a year ago for “public insult because of origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion” after the broadcast, in 2019 on Internet, a cliché showing the showing a “quenelle”.
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Relaxed at first instance, Alain Soral had appealed after his conviction, on January 6, 2021, by the Court of Appeal of Colmar for “public insult because of origin, the ethnic group, the nation , race or religion “as a result of the broadcast on Twitter and on its website of a photo showing him to make a” quenelle “, sort of salvation Nazi reversed, in front of the court of high instance of Colmar, in the Haut-Rhin. The polemicist was definitely sentenced for “public insult” after the rejection Tuesday, January 18 from his appeal, according to the judgment consulted by the France-Presse Agency.
“The conviction of Mr. Bonnet [the true name of Alain Soral] of the head of racial public insult” is “definitive”, writes the Court of Cassation. Relaxed in first instance, he had been ordered on appeal to pay “150 days-fine of a unit amount of 150 euros”, which means that in the event of a total or partial default of payment, it will be incarcerated for a corresponding duration Number of unpaid plenty days.
“Anti-Semitic meaning”
The “queenelle” (arm tense down and opposite hand placed on the shoulder) was popularized by the Dieudonnonian polemicist, condemned several times for anti-Semitic statements, which he described as “antisystem”. It is nevertheless “notorious” that this gesture is “sometimes a false nose of anti-Semitism”, raised the Court of Appeal, recalling that Mr. Soral had been sentenced to have done it in the middle of the murdered Jews Memorial. Europe, located in Berlin. She noted that, “in the mind” of Mr. Sorral, so she is an “anti-Semitic meaning”. From then on, by broadcasting a photo of him doing a “queenelle”, Mr. Soral heard “persist and sign in anti-Semitic provocation”.
In his judgment, the Court of Cassation also declared “inadmissible” the civil part of the Israelite Consistory of the Haut-Rhin, which had yet obtained damages on appeal. According to the highest French court, Alain Soral will also have to pay 2,500 euros to each of the other two civil parties, the International League against Racism and Antisemitism (LICRA) and SOS-Racism.
m. Sorlo has already been sentenced to twenty times, largely for offenses of provocation to hatred, defamation and anti-Semitic injury. In November, the Paris Court of Appeal had confirmed his sentence to amending days for remarks with the Jews the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States.