Rivarol editor convicted under French ‘hate speech’ laws
Posted by admin978 on July 3, 2020 · Leave a Comment
Jérôme Bourbon, editor of the long-established weekly journal Rivarol, has been given a nine-month suspended prison sentence by the Paris criminal court for the ‘crime’ of posting Twitter messages critical of international Zionism and raising questions about the state of free speech in 21st century France.
The three offending ‘tweets’ dated from 2018. M. Bourbon was banned from Twitter in 2019.
One of the offending ‘tweets’ commemorated First World War French hero Marshal Philippe Pétain, and had been posted by M. Bourbon to mark the centenary of the November 1918 armistice.
M. Bourbon was also required to pay ‘damages’ and court costs amounting to €6,000.
Rivarol is one of the longest established nationalist / traditionalist journals in the world, dating back almost seventy years to January 1951. Its 65th birthday banquet in 2016 was attended by Jean-Marie Le Pen and the late Prof. Robert Faurisson.
