A trial date was set in France for Jean Marie Le-Pen’s deputy on charges that he denied the Holocaust. Bruno Gollnisch, second-in-command in the right-wing National Front, will be tried in Lyon on Sept. 6. Gollnisch is being put on trial for remarks at a Lyon news conference in October during which he questioned whether the Nazis used gas chambers in concentration camps.
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