Holocaust deniers – Dieudonné sentenced on appeal for having scorned the victims of the Holocaust

“Dieudonné acted for selfish motives to spread a Holocaust denial message to a wide audience and to deride the victims of genocide.” According to our information, it is with this conclusion that the Criminal Appeal and Review Chamber (CPAR) today confirms the conviction in first case of the Franco-Cameroonian comedian: 180 day-fine at 170 francs per day, or 30,600 francs fine, for racial discrimination, defamation and insult. In the eyes of the Court, in the context of his shows given in Geneva and in the canton of Vaud, the artist expressed “his contempt for the victims of the Shoah and his desire to create controversy” and undermined “to human dignity and public peace”.