January 27th 2024.
In recent news, it was reported that Vincent Reynouard, a 54-year-old man from France, was arrested in a small Scottish fishing village after being on the run for two years. His extradition battle has come to an end, with the French authorities successfully launching a bid to bring him back to his home country. This was due to videos that he had posted on the internet, which were said to contain statements denying the existence of gas chambers in concentration camps during the Holocaust.
The arrest was made in November of 2022, following a warrant issued by a French court. This was in relation to seven videos that Reynouard had made between September 2019 and April 2020. In one of the videos, he was said to have described the Nazi atrocities as "crude slanders," while another touched on what he called "the Jewish problem." These videos were considered to be in violation of French law, specifically the criminal offense of Holocaust denial that has been in place since 1990.
This was not the first time that Reynouard had been convicted of such offenses. In fact, he had previously been handed prison sentences in both November 2020 and January 2021. His application to appeal against his extradition was also rejected by the Court of Appeal, with Sheriff Christopher Dickson stating that the content of the YouTube videos was "beyond the pale of what is tolerable in our society."
Reynouard continued to challenge his extradition, but his application for leave to appeal has now been refused. In a written judgement from Lord Carloway, it was stated that the extradition could not be regarded as disproportionate, and that any reasonable person would be offended by the content of the videos. The Lord Justice also added that the sharing of offensive videos online is considered a serious crime in Scotland.
Despite there being no specific law against Holocaust denial in Scotland, the videos were still deemed to be "grossly offensive" and a threat to the community. The judgement also highlighted the damaging effects of spreading false information on the internet, and how denying the Holocaust is a gross insult to the Jewish and other communities who were affected by the atrocities.
The defence argued that the videos did not incite violence, but this was dismissed by Lord Carloway. He stated that in today's world, posting videos on the internet can have significant consequences and may provoke serious disturbance in society. He also mentioned the current climate of tension in various parts of the world, where the repeated publication of anti-Semitic or racist material could lead to violent reactions from certain groups.
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