Vincent Reynouard, a convicted French Holocaust denier, has been arrested near Edinburgh after two years on the run, police said.
Investigators from France’s office for hate crimes and crimes in the direction of humanity have been working with Scottish officers to detain the 53-year-old since 2020.
Reynouard was most not too way back convicted beneath France’s anti-Nazi authorized tips for various antisemitic posts and films on social media. He was given a four-month jail time interval in November 2020 and an extra six-month spell in January 2021.
Reynouard appeared sooner than the Edinburgh Sheriff Courtroom docket on Thursday and a French judicial official confirmed that France was in search of his extradition.
The UK-based Marketing campaign In opposition to 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 said he was reportedly residing inside the UK and dealing as a private tutor.
It added that his first Holocaust denial conviction was in 1991 for distributing leaflets denying the existence of gas chambers at Nazi focus camps.
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