Vincent Reynouard’s Edinburgh appeal rejected as French courts seek to jail revisionist scholar

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Vincent Reynouard’s Edinburgh appeal rejected as French courts seek to jail revisionist scholar

January 26, 2024

This afternoon in Edinburgh the President of the Court of Session, Lord Carloway, rejected the appeal against extradition to France of Vincent Reynouard, the exiled scholar whom Parisian courts seek to jail for his research questioning orthodox history of the ‘Holocaust’ and the ‘massacre at Oradour’.

Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with the background to the case. Vincent was arrested in the Scottish fishing village of Anstruther in November 2023 and has been held in Edinburgh jail for the past fourteen months, despite not being charged (let alone convicted) of any crime under UK law.

France is one of many European countries which criminalise any historical and scientific research questioning the orthodox version of the ‘Holocaust’: the alleged murder of six million Jews in presumed homicidal gas chambers during the Second World War. But Parliament has deliberately avoided passing any such law in the UK. Instead, UK courts – including now Lord Carloway, Scotland’s most senior judge – are engaged in a cowardly criminalisation of revisionism via abuse of other laws such as the Communications Act, and via abuse of the extradition process.

This conveniently avoids any parliamentary debate on the merits of the revisionist case. Though the historicity of the ‘Holocaust’ was not a legal point at issue during the trial, and though he has not indicated any competence of his own on historical matters, Lord Carloway assumes the right to declaim on “the patent falsehood” of Vincent’s work. Lord Carloway makes statements about the Auschwitz death toll and about the notorious ‘confession’ of camp commandant Rudolf Höss, though no expert witness testimony was adduced at any stage of Vincent’s extradition process about these matters.

Lord Carloway does not himself claim personal expertise in 20th century history and does not indicate that he has carried out even a single hour of documentary research on such topics. Notably he relies on the Höss ‘confession’. In what other case would Lord Carloway be happy for a Scottish court to rely on a ‘confession’ obtained by torture and blackmail, or on submissions concerning the scene of the crime that were provided by the Kremlin’s military and intelligence services?

The version of history laid down by the Nuremberg trial – instituted by the victors of the Second World War, and largely based on ‘evidence’ by a Kremlin-controlled ‘commission’ – is protected in France by the ‘Gayssot Law’ enacted in 1990, appropriately enough on the initiative of a French Communist MP allied to a millionaire Jewish socialist.

This ‘Gayssot Law’ was designed to criminalise the work of the pioneering revisionist scholar Professor Robert Faurisson, who though born in Shepperton, West London, to a Scottish mother and French father, lived and taught in France throughout his adult life, latterly as Professor of French Literature at the University of Lyon.

From the mid-1970s until the day before his death in 2018, Professor Faurisson wrote and published detailed research into the alleged ‘gas chambers’, summarising his conclusions in a famous sentence:
“The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews form one and the same historical lie, which has permitted a gigantic political and financial swindle whose main beneficiaries are the State of Israel and international Zionism and whose main victims are the German people – but not their leaders – and the Palestinian people in their entirety.”

It is a curious coincidence that the Court of Session judgment rejecting Vincent Reynouard’s appeal was delivered one day after Professor Faurisson’s birthday, and a few hours before what has in recent years become a worldwide festival of historical ‘remembrance’ – Holocaust Memorial Day. In 1995 Faurisson directly addressed “Auschwitz: the facts and the legend” in an essay now available online at the Robert Faurisson website.

Vincent Reynouard spoke at the conference in October 2018 – held in Shepperton, the Professor’s birthplace – at which Robert Faurisson gave his final speech, a day before his death. Vincent (who was awarded the Robert Faurisson International Prize in 2020) is today’s leading representative of the Faurissonian tradition of scholarly re-examination of the ‘Holocaust”s evidential basis, while the courts (both in Paris and now sadly in Edinburgh) have abandoned scrutiny of evidence and now prefer to genuflect in submission to ‘Holocaustianity’.

Most of the Western world has moved away from organised religion, but ‘Holocaust’ memorialisation has become a pseudo-religion, with Auschwitz-Birkenau as its Calvary and anti-revisionist legislation as the new blasphemy laws.

Though the UK has no such laws, Lord Carloway affirms in his judgment that Vincent’s online publications are extraditable offences because they can be deemed “grossly offensive” under s.127 of the Communications Act 2007. This is an updating for the internet age of a law originally designed to criminalise obscene telephone calls.

In this instance, the law has been stretched to cover offending “members of the Jewish and other communities whose members perished at Auschwitz and Birkenau. The same applies to those living with the memory of Oradour. It is not necessary to be a member of the relevant communities to be grossly offended by such statements; any reasonable person would be.”

Lord Carloway makes the dire implications clear: “Although it is not an offence to hold these views and, in certain contexts, to express them, it is a breach of section 127 of the 2007 Act to communicate them to the public on the internet.”

By Lord Carloway’s implication, online revisionism is to be deemed criminal in the UK, even when expressed in scholarly terms, and even without a specific parliamentary statute.

This is a blatant attack on fundamental human rights: an attack on the basic principles not only of UK law but of European civilisation’s accepted intellectual standards.

We shall report soon on the next stage in the fight for Vincent Reynouard’s freedom and the fight for real history.

https://jailingopinions.com/realhist...onist-scholar/

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Vincent Reynouard faces extradition with courage and confidence in the future of revisionism

February 1, 2024

The French revisionist scholar Vincent Reynouard, who has been held in Edinburgh prison since his arrest in November 2022, will be extradited to France next week after it became clear that there was no further avenue of appeal. (The photo above shows the late Richard Edmonds presenting Vincent with the Robert Faurisson International Prize 2020.)

[url=https://realhistory.info/2024/01/26/vincent-reynouards-edinburgh-appeal-rejected-as-french-courts-seek-to-jail-revisionist-scholar/As we reported a few days ago[/url], Scotland’s most senior judge rejected Vincent’s appeal after a hearing at Edinburgh’s High Court of Justiciary. Although Scotland remains part of the United Kingdom, the UK Supreme Court in London has no jurisdiction in his case.

Vincent Reynouard issued a statement at his blog yesterday. (English translation below)

The news of my upcoming extradition having spread, correspondents wrote to me to tell me that I must be disappointed and undoubtedly demoralised. I thank them and reassure them: I am neither.

When, on the evening of January 26th, a fellow inmate informed me that Scottish television had announced the High Court’s decision, I was making a watercolour for the widow of the revisionist Carlos Porter. After asking my informant a few questions, I quietly got back to work.

Disappointment and demoralisation are consequences of our personal desires. Now, personally, I don’t want anything. I fulfil my mission by spreading revisionism. When I physically die, I will be rewarded for it.

For their part, do my contemporaries deserve the truth? If so, then I will see my work bear fruit. Otherwise, the seeds sown will germinate after my death, or perhaps never. I can’t do anything about it; It’s God’s business, not mine.

Here in Edinburgh Prison, my life has not changed one bit. In the calm of my cell, I write, I read, I draw and I meditate. Far from appearing as a fearsome spectre, the upcoming extradition presents itself as a simple door opening onto the future, a continuation which, if the ordeals are experienced positively, will prove enriching. Hence my serenity.

Last thing: according to the BBC, the High Court magistrates stressed that in the current context, all my videos were “grossly offensive” to all citizens of a modern society. Proof of the importance of World War II revisionism: it leaves no one indifferent. I had noted this for a long time. For revisionism, it is a great victory. So why would I be disappointed or demoralized?

Thank you to you who support me.

Vincent Reynouard

We shall continue to report on Vincent’s case, and on the broader revisionist struggle. It appears that the UK is to be the new frontline for attempts to criminalise revisionism. If so, our enemies should be warned that there will be no surrender.

https://jailingopinions.com/realhist...f-revisionism/

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Vincent Reynouard arrives in Paris and is released under heavy guard!

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Participatory Democracy
February 03, 2024

Démocratie Participative

Vincent had recently addressed his supporters via his official website. He has left Britain, a sinister country with no future, ruled with an iron fist by the Jews. He's already in France!

Le Monde :

On Friday February 2, Scotland handed over to France the multi-convicted Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi Vincent Reynouard, arrested in November 2022. He was indicted in Paris, then released under judicial supervision, Agence France-Presse has learned from sources close to the case.

One of the two sources close to the case said that Mr Reynouard, whose extradition had been authorized by Scotland on October 12, had been flown to France mid-day on Friday.

He was then presented to an examining magistrate in Paris, who indicted him for "denial of war crimes", "denial of crimes against humanity" and "incitement to hatred", then placed under judicial supervision, according to the second source, who explained that the penalties for these offenses did not include detention.

There's no preventive detention for press offenses, that's what they mean.

Wanted by French authorities in ongoing investigations, Vincent Reynouard, 54, had fled to Scotland, where he lived under a false identity, until his arrest in the Anstruther area, a small fishing port north of Edinburgh.

Also sought by France for several sentences handed down in his absence - his last, six months in prison, dates back to January 2021, for a video published in 2019 in which he denied the reality of the Holocaust -, Vincent Reynouard can lodge an objection to these sentences, which are therefore not enforceable.

Personally, I see no point in dragging out these proceedings by appealing. I might as well go to prison and serve them before returning to a country completely free of Jewish influence.

There are several options.

His hunt, led by the Office central de lutte contre les crimes contre l'humanité et les crimes de haine (OCLCH), began in August 2020, when a tag reading "Reynouard is right" was found on the memorial at Oradour-sur-Glane (Haute-Vienne), a village whose population was massacred by the SS Das Reich division on June 10, 1944.

In several videos posted on the Internet, Vincent Reynouard, who had opposed his extradition, had questioned the massacre. In October, Scottish Sheriff Christopher Dickson ruled that the videos were "beyond what is tolerable in our society", and authorized his extradition.

The truth is very poorly tolerated in democracies.

Although British law does not criminalize Holocaust denial, the judge ruled that the charges against Vincent Reynouard - "public trivialization of a war crime" and "public denial of the existence of crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War" - fell within the scope of the Communications Act.

These Jewish courts won't be able to hold him forever. The extravagant means employed to have him extradited will result, at best, in a few years' imprisonment, and then the hero will be free again and much better prepared.

For the Jews, jubilation will give way to despondency. This is all the more true in the new, resolutely anti-Semitic world climate.

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