Sentenced several times for having denied the existence of the gas chambers or the massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane, he was placed in detention before a possible extradition.
By Antoine Albertini
It is a figure in the ultra-right that the British authorities challenged Friday, November 11 in Scotland, during an operation carried out in the utmost discretion and initiated by French justice. Vincent Reynouard, 53, sentenced on multiple times for his negationist theses, was presented to an Edinburgh judge before refusing his extradition and being imprisoned while waiting for the British judicial authorities to rule on his fate.
The investigation began with the discovery, Friday August 21, 2020, of tags on the facade of the center of the memory of Oradour-sur-Glane, a locality of Haute-Vienne, of which 642 inhabitants were murdered by A unit of the SS Das Reich division then in full retirement, June 10, 1944. The term “martyred village” appearing on the building had been barred with the paint bomb and the “liar” formulas, “when the truth” , had also been tagged. Among the inscriptions, the investigators had notably noted a very direct reference to the negationist arrested in Scotland: “Reynouard is right”.
An important substantive work is then carried out by the Limoges research section, which multiplies investigations: painting of painting, meticulous survey on telephony … But, in the absence of determining elements, the survey will Focusing on the reference made by the tags: Vincent Reynouard.
This training engineer, who claims to be National Socialism, was in his time the first teacher revoked for negationism. Close to the fundamentalist Catholic movement and, at the same time, European neo-Nazi circles, he was condemned on several occasions, both in France and in Belgium, where he had expatriated, for “apology for war crimes and contestation of crimes against humanity “. “Its negation of historical facts, according to the Conspiracy Watch site, does not focus only on the genocide of the Jews. It also incorporates other events of the Second World War such as the Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane”.
A tweet posted in 2019 exhibiting an Adolf Hitler’s bust
“Refugee”, according to his relatives, in Great Britain in 2015, he posted videos on social networks exhibiting his daily life as a tutor – without forgetting to develop his theses – and distinguished himself in this exile By a tweet posted on February 19, 2019 on the occasion of his birthday, proudly exhibiting an Adolf Hitler bust offered by “Friends from France”.
If the crimes of opinion are subject to Great Britain to much more flexible legislation than in France, the obstacle to the opening of an investigation by the local authorities could however be lifted thanks to a subtlety Legal: the British authorities authorize the extradition of foreign nationals when they have, in their country of origin, the subject of a sentence to one year in prison. However, on June 17, 2015, the Court of Appeal of Caen (Calvados), pronounced this sentence against Mr. Reynouard after the broadcast of yet another video, dating back to 2014, in which he intended to “dismantle the Mechanisms, the springs and lies of propaganda imposed on young generations in the name of the duty of memory “on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the landing of June 6, 1944.
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