Overview

• The conviction stems from an October 2019 video on his Sans concession blog and VKontakte where he denied the Nazi genocide of Jews and alleged gas chambers never existed.
• He must pay €1,000 in damages to each of three civil parties, including Licra and the Observatoire juif de France.
• The tribunal also ordered him to cover €1,500 in legal fees for each of three associations such as the Bureau national de vigilance contre l’antisémitisme.
• Since 2006 Reynouard has accrued nine convictions under France’s Gayssot Act, including a 12-month sentence in March 2025 for similar Holocaust denial remarks.
• After fleeing to Great Britain in 2015, he was arrested in Scotland in November 2022 and extradited to France in February 2024 to face repeated negationism trials.