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Reuters
Prosecutors told a court yesterday that French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen should receive a suspended prison sentence and a fine for saying that the Nazi occupation of France was “not particularly inhumane”.
Le Pen’s trial for “justification of war crimes” and “contesting crimes against humanity” opened on Friday.
It centres around a comment Le Pen made in a 2005 interview with right-wing weekly magazine Rivarol, which angered the government, anti-racism organisations and Jewish groups.
The prosecution asked that Le Pen be handed a five-month suspended sentence and fined 10,000 euros.
He denies any wrongdoing and did not attend the trial. His defence team argued that his remarks were not part of an interview but of a casual conversation.”In France, at least, the German occupation was not particularly inhumane, although there were some blunders, inevitable in a country of 550,000 sq km,” he was quoted as saying in the magazine.
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