He was arrested in the Anstruther area, a small fishing port north of Edinburgh, where he was living under a false identity.
Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard, convicted multiple times by the French courts for remarks denying the existence of the Holocaust, was arrested Thursday, November 10 in Scotland, we learned Sunday from the Scottish police and a close source. folder. The 53-year-old man was arrested by Scottish police on the basis of a “French intelligence“Said the source familiar with the matter, confirming information from the weekly Marianne.
“He was arrested in the Anstruther area“, a small fishing port located north of Edinburgh, where he lived under a false identity, “on the basis of an arrest warrantissued by France, a Scottish police spokesman said. His hunt, led by the Central Office for Combating Crimes Against Humanity and Hate Crimes (OCLCH), began in August 2020 when a tag “Reynouard is right.was found on the memorial of Oradour-sur-Glane (Haute-Vienne), whose population had been massacred by the SS Das Reich division on June 10, 1944.
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Questioning of Oradour-sur-Glane
In several videos broadcast on the internet, Vincent Reynouard had questioned this massacre. Close cooperation between French and British justice was necessary to obtain his arrest. “There is no incrimination for Holocaust denial in the United Kingdom, but thanks to an old extract from a judgment of the Caen Court of Appeal of 2015“, who sentenced Vincent Reynouard to one year in prison for denial of crimes against humanity, “we were able to convince the Brits to go get him“, explained to AFP General Jean-Philippe Reiland, head of the OCLCH.
During his presentation before a judge in Edinburgh, Vincent Reynouard refused his extradition to France, said Jean-Philippe Reiland. He was imprisoned pending a new hearing with a view to his possible surrender to the French authorities. “I was very keen on his arrest. He still spreads many hate messages on the internet where he has a large audience“, underlined General Reiland, in particular on the Russian social network VKontakte or the American (ultraconservative and conspiratorial) Gab.
Vincent Reynouard’s last conviction (six months in prison) dates back to January 2021, for a video published in 2019 in which he denies the reality of the Holocaust.