Vincent Reynouard, a convicted French Holocaust denier, has been arrested close to Edinburgh after two years at the run, police mentioned.
Investigators from France’s workplace for hate crimes and crimes towards humanity were operating with Scottish officers to detain the 53-year-old since 2020.
Reynouard was once maximum just lately convicted beneath France’s anti-Nazi rules for quite a lot of antisemitic posts and movies on social media. He was once given a four-month prison time period in November 2020 and an extra six-month spell in January 2021.
Reynouard seemed sooner than the Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday and a French judicial respectable showed that France was once searching for his extradition.
The UK-based Campaign Against Antisemitism has welcomed the arrest and described Reynouard as a “despicable Holocaust denier who has repeatedly been convicted by French courts”.
The non-profit organisation mentioned he was once reportedly residing in the United Kingdom and dealing as a non-public tutor.
It added that his first Holocaust denial conviction was once in 1991 for distributing leaflets denying the life of fuel chambers at Nazi focus camps.
