Vincent Reynouard jailed over Holocaust denial

A Paris court jailed French Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard for eight months on Tuesday for claiming that Nazi gas chambers did not exist during World War II.

Reynouard, 57, was charged over articles published in the far-right magazine Rivarol in 2024 and 2025. He had already been convicted 10 times since 2006, mainly for denying crimes against humanity.

The court said that by denying the existence of gas chambers, Reynouard was denying the Holocaust by questioning one of its principal methods. He was also convicted of antisemitic insult for describing Jewish people as “pathogenic.”

Rivarol editor Jerome Bourbon, whose criminal record contains 22 convictions, was sentenced to six months in prison, to be served under electronic monitoring at home.

The two men were also ordered to jointly pay damages to several groups, including the Jewish Observatory of France and the League Against Racism and Antisemitism.

Holocaust denial has been a criminal offence in France since 1990.