Holocaust Denier’s Sentence: Visit 5 Ex-Nazi Camps, and Write About It<br />Defending Mr. Dieudonné, he said the Holocaust was "one of the only historical facts<br />that cannot be called into question." At trial in 2015, online statements Mr. Louis made in support of the French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen were found to have violated a law against the minimization, justification or approval of the Holocaust.<br />22, 2017<br />A former lawmaker in Belgium convicted of Holocaust denial in 2015 was handed an unusual sentence this week: The Brussels Court of Appeal ordered him to visit one Nazi concentration camp a year for the next five years<br />and write about his experiences, according to the former lawmaker and local news reports.<br />She called his sentence "unusual." "Don’t see this as one crazy guy who happens to be a Holocaust<br />denier," said Ms. Lipstadt, who opposes the criminalization of Holocaust denial.<br />rmination and this questioning is prohibited by Belgian law." Ms. Lipstadt said<br />that defense was common among Holocaust deniers and others on the far right who "market" their beliefs by posing as reasonable people who are simply asking hard questions. that but I have questioned the essential role of the gas chambers in this exte<br />Mr. Laurent was given a six-month suspended jail sentence and fined over $20,000 at his 2015 trial, which centered on online statements he made<br />that questioned the number of Jews killed in gas chambers during the Holocaust.<br />" Mr. Louis wrote in an email on Wednesday night.<br />that To summarize, I have invited the people who follow me to ask about Jean-Marie Le Pen’s condemnation of his remarks with regard to the gas chambers, which he considered to be a ‘detail’ of the Second World War,
