“In France (…), German occupation was not particularly inhuman, even if there were some excesses, which was inevitable in a country covering some 550 000 km2,” wrote Jean-Marie Le Pen in a newspaper published by the extreme right.
The State Prosecutor as well as several associations also accused him of having spoken in shocking terms about the massacre in Ascq, when 86 Frenchmen were shot in reprisal for the derailment of a German train in the night of 1st to 2nd April 1944.
Jean-Marie Le Pen’s lawyer said he was intending to take the case to Final Court of Appeal, considering that this was “yet another extraordinary infringement on freedom of expression”.
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