Cour de cassation - 26.05.1994
Case- Case number
- n. ° 92-85.638
- Country
- France
- Case Description
Denial of the existence of one or more crimes against humanity (Contestation de l'existence d'un ou plusieurs crimes contre l'humanité) – The documents publicly distributed by the guilty party tend to deny the existence of the extermination of the Jews by the Hitler regime, by means of the gas chambers, that the alleged policy of exterminating the Jews and the use of gas chambers for this purpose at Auschwitz or elsewhere are among the aberrations engendered by any war or war propaganda are such as to contest the existence of one or more crimes against humanity - the imprisonment of the guilty party who refused to pay the fine to which he was sentenced cannot be ordered for an offence of a political nature - this being a press offence which is treated as a political offence, the Court of Appeal misinterpreted the meaning and scope of the text by ordering imprisonment - the decision of the Court of Appeal is quashed
Art. 385 et 512 Code de procédure pénale; Art. 23 Loi du 29 juillet 1881 sur la liberté de la presse.
- Name of Court
- Cour de cassation - Chambre criminelle
- Date of decision
- May 26, 1994
- Subjects
- International Crimes
- Type of Court
- Supreme Court
- Area of Law
- Criminal Law
- Year
- 1994
- Generated ID
- JOE6959-6570
- Geolocation
Latitude: 48.855133056640625
Longitude: 2.345714807510376
- Geolocation
- Existing
- Link
- legifrance