A FRENCH Holocaust denier who was found hiding in a quiet Scots village after two years on the run has been sentenced to 12 months in jail.
Vincent Reynouard, 56, was living a secret double life in Anstruther, Fife, before cops tracked him down in November 2022.
He was traced down in the sleepy village of Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife[/caption]
The fugitive sparked an international manhunt led by France‘s Central Office for the Fight against Crimes against Humanity and Hate Crimes after fleeing his homeland to dodge charges under strict anti-Nazi laws.
After being caught, he was remanded in custody at HMP Edinburgh where he spent 15 months before being handed over to French authorities last February.
Holocaust denial has been a criminal offence in France since 1990, and Reynouard has been convicted on numerous occasions, dating as far back as 1991.
He was previously handed a four-month jail term in November 2020 and a further six months in January 2021.
His latest conviction was connected to a series of antisemitic posts on social media where he allegedly denied the existence of gas chambers in concentration camps.
The former maths teacher was today found guilty at the Judicial Court of Paris of denying war crimes, denying crimes against humanity and inciting racial hatred.
As well as a 12-month prison sentence, he was also ordered to cough up €10,000 in damages.
The Parisian public prosecutor originally pushed for an 18-month term and a €15,000 fine.
It is understood a sentencing judge will now decide how Reynouard serves his sentence.
The disgraced academic reportedly declared himself “200%” part of the revisionist movement during his trial, according to The Herald.
We told previously how Reynouard bragged that his imprisonment was “promotional material” for his memoirs which he planned to write in jail.
In a letter from his cell addressed to French nationalist and far-right weekly magazine Rivarol, Reynouard said he is in “good spirits”.
He said his fellow prisoners know who he is thanks to a tabloid newspaper, which led them to quiz him on “what revisionism is”, which he says he has explained to them “succinctly”.
He asked supporters to send book, and stationary such as pencils and erasers, as he attempts to write his “memoirs” which he proposes be published “in excerpts” by the far-right magazine.
