French extremist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was convicted of publicly questioning crimes against humanity. Le Pen was ordered to pay thousands of dollars in damages to civil rights groups as well as $50,000 to publish the court decision in French newspapers and magazines for saying that Nazi gas chambers were a “detail in history.”
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