Holocaust denial (Contestation de crimes contre l’humanité) – The Court of Appeal acquitted a French politician, prosecuted for stating that “Pétain saved the French Jews,” holding that his remarks, while offensive to deportees’ families, did not amount to Holocaust denial or minimization of extermination policies, since they did not question the number of victims or the reality of Nazi crimes. It also stressed that Pétain himself had not been convicted of crimes against humanity, but only of collaboration with the enemy.

Art. 24 bis Loi du 29 juillet 1881 sur la liberté de la presse.