Pandemonium broke out in the Paris Court of Justice last Friday where Holocaust revisionist Robert Fauris-son is being sued for falsifying history and inciting racial hatred.
The self-styled historian, who is in fact a lecturer in literature, drew shouts of “liar” and “bastard” from spectators when he claimed that gas chambers never existed.
Fistfights broke out. A man shouted that his whole family had been gassed and demanded to testify. He was removed by order of the judge.
Faurisson is being sued by several organizations of wartime deportees because of an interview published in an extreme right-wing monthly last September.
He contended in it that the gas chambers were used for “disinfection” and that the Final Solution, the Nazi plan to exterminate Jews, Gypsies and other minorities, did not exist.
The plaintiffs charged Faurisson was using the court as a forum to propagate his views. They walked out when the judge ruled he had the right to state his case.
Faurisson wrote the foreword to the “Leuchter Report,” a revisionist polemic by Fred Leuchter, a Boston-area man on trial in Massachusetts for practicing engineering without a license.
Leuchter, whose business is selling execution machinery, including gas chambers, to states with capital punishment, was commissioned to visit certain death camp sites and write a report in support of Ernst Zundel, a German-born Canadian convicted in 1988 for spreading “false news.”
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