Former French far-Right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen is fined £25,000 for Holocaust denial after describing the gas chambers as a 'detail of history'

Far-right French MEP Jean-Marie Le Pen was today fined £25,000 for Holocaust denial after describing the wartime genocide of Jews as a 'detail of history'.

The founder of the National Front (FN) had claimed immunity from prosecution because of his status as a European Parliament member representing South-East France.

But judges sitting at the Paris Correctional Court rejected his defence, saying he was 'guilty of questioning a crime against humanity' .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk