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Friday January 24, 1997

Holocaust denier fired

PARIS (JTA) -- A French high school teacher has been suspended for engaging in Holocaust denial.
Vincent Reynouard, 27, who teaches math in the Normandy town of Honfleur, was found to be using the school computer to file docu

Reynouard denies any wrongdoing and claims that he is the victim of a witch hunt.

According to Liberation, the public prosecutor took up the case after Reynouard's suspension last month.

If charged and found guilty of contesting the truth of historical crimes against humanity, he faces up to one year imprisonment and a $60,000 fine.

This was not the first time the instructor was accused of denying the Holocaust.

In 1991, he was convicted of distributing Holocaust-denial literature, but the local school board decided to give him a second chance and allowed him to continue teaching.

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