A world- famous French scientist and researcher ,Professor Robert Faurisson, was given a three month suspended prison term and also fined 7,500 euros for denying the existence of so-called "gas chambers" in National-Socialist Germany.
Speaking 20 months ago on the Sahar 1 Iranian channel in the program "World in Question" on February 3, 2005, Professor Faurisson said "there was never a single "gas chamber" under the Germans.... So all those millions of tourists who visit Auschwitz are seeing a lie, a falsification."
Speaking in his defense, the scientist reminded the "court" of the fact that his interview had benn never broadcast neither in democratic France, nor in democratic Europe as a whole.
His lawyer, Mr Eric Delcroix, regreted the lack of freedom of speech and expression these days in France and said that he would discuss with Professor Faurisson a possibility to appeal the unjust sentence.
"I am always for the freedom of expression and the freedom of scientific reseach. I regret this conviction for a delict of opinion", Mr Delcroix said.
In addition, the "court" sentenced Professor Faurisson to a ritual punishment. He is to pay one euro to each of the three Jewish groups who denounced his interview on TV in distant Iran, containing his Orwellian thought crimes, to the French police, the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur reports.
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