A German court convicted a French far-right leader for inciting racial hatred and ordered him to pay a fine, German prosecutors said Wednesday. The charges stemmed from a 1997 news conference in Munich at which Jean-Marie Le Pen repeated his oft-quoted remark that the Holocaust is a “mere detail of history.”
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