"Someone who has provoked the Jewish
community for years should expect this sort of thing [a vicious, near-fatal
beating]."

- Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld on the savage attack against Professor
Faurisson

Questioned Holocaust, historian badly
beaten Toronto Globe and Mail | Monday, Sept. 18, 1989, p. A5

Reuter

CLERMONT-FERRAND, France

A leading French revisionist historian who denies that millions of Jews were
killed in the Holocaust was recovering from surgery yesterday after a savage
beating.

Robert Faurisson, 60, suffered a broken jaw and ribs and severe head injuries
in the attack by three youths while he was walking his dog in the town of
Vichy.

A hospital spokesman in Clermont-Ferrand, the central French city where he
was transferred for surgery, said Mr. Faurisson's condition was stable.

"He was conscious, but he couldn't speak," said a fire fighter who gave Mr.
Faurisson first aid. "His jaw was smashed. They destroyed his face."

A previously unknown group, The Sons of the Memory of the Jews, took
responsibility for the attack, saying those who deny the Holocaust should
"beware."

Veteran Nazi-hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld said they were not surprised
by the attack. "Someone who has provoked the Jewish community for years should
expect this sort of thing [a vicious, near-fatal beating]," Serge Klarsfeld
said. <end>