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A Holocaust denier is suing a former French justice minister for
defamation. Robert Faurisson appeared in court Monday to file against
Robert Badinter for saying in a 2006 television interview that he had
Faurisson "convicted for being a forger of history."

Faurisson, 77,
who was convicted in 1981 of imprudence, tampering with evidence and
intellectual bias for speaking of the "alleged gas chambers and
alleged genocide of the Jews," argued that he was not convicted of
falsifying history. He is seeking some $20,000 in damages and a statement
of Badinter's guilt on the same television program.

Badinter
in court spoke of the deportation of his uncle, grandmother and father
when he was 15 years old. All three were murdered in Nazi concentration
camps.

"Denial is one of the
worst acts of those falsifying history. All of a sudden it means that
there are no dead, no assassinated, that Jews were dead for nothing, just
by accident," he said. "Until my last living day, until my last breath, I
will continue to fight against you and against the likes of you. You will
always remain a forger of history."

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