Patriotic french politician arrested for calling for holocaust debate

The case of Bruno Gollnisch, a senior member of France’s extreme-right National Front party, has left the assembly’s judicial affairs committee with a dilemma.

The politician was charged by police in France over his comments at a press conference on 11 October last year, which came close to breaking French laws against calling into question crimes against humanity.

"I do not deny the existence of deadly gas chambers. But I’m not a specialist on this issue, and I think we have to let the historians debate it," he said.

He did not contest the "hundreds of thousands, the millions of deaths" during the Holocaust, but added: "As to the way those people died, a debate should take place."

Why is it illegal to want to have a debate on the issue? If the holocaust really did happen I see no reason for there not to be a debate.

People should be able to debate historical facts without fear of being sent to prison and apparently they can't even call for a debate in France which is antifreedom.