Far-Right French Author Alain Soral Jailed for Anti-Semitic Content

He is paying the price for his provocation of racial hatred. Alain Soral was sentenced to 24 months in prison, including eight months in prison, in addition to a fine of 45,000 euros by the Bobigny Criminal Court, reports AFP.

He had disseminated a clip entitled "Yellow Vests" in which a placard bearing the name of Rothschild was thrown into the fire, as well as photos of Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL), Jacques Attali and Patrick Drahi.

This sentence was imposed on the far-right essayist. The clip clearly shows a rapper calling to "get rid" of Rothschild, Attali and BHL, describing them as "parasites", according to the same source.

The court also ordered Alain Bonnet (his civil name) to remove the clip from his website, under penalty of a 1,000 euro fine per day of delay.

This conviction follows a direct summons from a collective of associations including the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF), SOS Racisme, the Licra, "J’accuse", the MRAP and the League of Human Rights (LDH).

In a press release, these associations welcomed "this important decision" which "legitimately marks the end of the impunity enjoyed, in fact, by Alain Soral, a repeat offender of hatred, involved in the past in 57 proceedings for the same offenses against his usual targets."

The far-right essayist has been convicted several times for incitement to racial hatred. On April 15, he had received one year in prison for negationism, in another case.

But the arrest warrant that the Paris Criminal Court had ordered against him ran up against the categorical refusal of the Prosecutor’s Office on the grounds that it did not have a legal basis.