Serial Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard sentenced to six months in prison

The anti-Semitism professional never gives up. Barely sentenced to 12 months in prison on March 19, Vincent Reynouard was sentenced again this Friday, July 11, to six months in prison, convertible to day parole, for contesting crimes against humanity by the Paris Criminal Court. The 56-year-old man appeared in court on Wednesday, May 28. He has ten days to appeal.

This decision concerns Holocaust denial remarks in a short video published in October 2019 on his blog Sans concession and on the Russian social network VKontakte, where he stated in particular that "the alleged genocide of the Jews by Hitler's Germany is a myth." "No systematic extermination was ordered, planned or carried out," he dared before adding that "the so-called Hitlerian gas chambers never existed ." This "rumor" was "exploited by the victors anxious to justify their crusade to annihilate National Socialism" and "the Zionists used it to obtain the creation of the State of Israel," added the neo-Nazi who arrived at the court in shorts and an undershirt.

This Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi remained true to himself during his trial on May 28, stating that "I take responsibility for everything" and describing himself as a "delinquent of speech." However, he rejects the accusation of anti-Semitism : "I am Judeo-indifferent," he declared, according to comments reported in La Croix.

In her submissions, the public prosecutor expressed concern about the "popularization of his remarks aimed at young people." And there is good reason to be. Vincent Reynouard is accompanied to each hearing by his "fan club" of men, often young. Vincent Reynouard will also have to pay €1,000 in damages to each of the three associations that had joined as civil parties, including the LICRA and the Jewish Observatory of France (OJF). He will also have to pay €1,500 to each of the three associations, including the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA), in legal costs.

Vincent Reynouard has been disseminating theories denying the reality of the Holocaust since the 1990s. Knowing he was in the crosshairs of the justice system, he fled to Great Britain in 2015. Spotted by gendarmes from the Central Office for the Fight against Crimes Against Humanity (OCLCH) and the SO15 section of the London Metropolitan Police, a unit specializing in counterterrorism and the fight against extremism, he was arrested at his Scottish hideout in November 2022 before being extradited to France in February 2024.

In total, since 2006, this former mathematics teacher dismissed from the National Education system has been convicted nine times, including five for denying crimes against humanity. He has been imprisoned twice, in 2010 and 2022. Despite this lengthy criminal record, Vincent Reynouard never stops inciting racial hatred and telling historical lies. The self-proclaimed heir to Robert Faurisson, for example, was convicted for denying the existence of gas chambers or the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane —a village in Haute-Vienne where 643 residents were murdered by a unit of the SS Das Reich division on June 10, 1944—claiming that the perpetrators of this crime were part of the Resistance and not the Waffen-SS.

It was for these last remarks that he was sentenced on March 19, 2025, to 12 months in prison, as well as for videos posted online between 2017 and 2020. In one of them, titled "Macron, servant of the Jews?", he called the Holocaust a "false story." Unfortunately, the numerous convictions by the courts " did not dissuade him from reoffending, far from it ," he wrote on his blog.