27 Facts About Alain Soral

In 2019, Alain Soral received a prison sentence in France for using anti-semitic slurs to label the Pantheon in a video, incentive to racial hatred, apology of crime against humanity, and Holocaust denial.

Alain Soral was born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie and grew up in the suburbs of Annemasse, where he attended a local primary school.

Alain Soral spent two years doing small jobs before being accepted into the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts at 20, where he studied for two years.

Alain Soral was then taken in by a family of academics, who encouraged him to enroll at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, where he attended lectures given by Cornelius Castoriadis.

The latter work sold badly, and this led Alain Soral to turn away from writing for a time.

Alain Soral then focused on cinematic techniques, and after 2 promotional films, wrote and directed his first short film, Chouabadaballet, une dispute amoureuse entre deux essuie-glaces.

Around that time, Alain Soral had joined the French Communist Party.

Alain Soral became interested in the works of Karl Marx and other Marxist thinkers such as Georg Lukacs, Henri Wallon, Lucien Goldmann and Michel Clouscard.

Alain Soral published Sociologie du dragueur, his most successful sociological essay to date.

Disgusted by what he called "a lynching", Alain Soral gave up cinema altogether and returned to writing.

Besides the sociological Marxist analysis of the modern-day society, Alain Soral's books tend to focus on seven main themes:.

Alain Soral has especially criticised monthly women's publications, which he believes alter the conscience and relegate women to the status of "objects".

Alain Soral defined himself as a Marxist, and claims to have been a member of the French Communist Party in the early 1990s.

Alain Soral declares to have left the PCF because of his opposition to the party's renunciation of revolutionary content.

Alain Soral supported left-wing dissident candidate Jean-Pierre Chevenement during the 2002 presidential election.

In 2005, Alain Soral turned to the far-right, joining the National Front's campaign committee; he was given responsibility for social issues and for the suburbs under the authority of Marine Le Pen.

Alain Soral supported the Bloc identitaire's distribution of food in January 2006.

Alain Soral has been especially critical of the rise of communitarianism in the gay community, a term that he has sharply criticised, arguing that many homosexuals have nothing to do with Gay Pride ideology.

However, Alain Soral is currently supporting the homosexual community Fistiniere directed by French sociologists Brice and Alexis.

Alain Soral defended his comments some days later on the website oumma.

Alain Soral argues that Yugoslavia was dismembered by the United States, which saw an opportunity to gain political ground and influence in South-Eastern Europe by arming Albanian separatist movements in the Serbian province of Kosovo.

Alain Soral further argues that communitarianism in France could have a similar effect, if the French Republic fails to apply 1905 Law of Separation of Church and State, which is enshrined in the French constitution.

Alain Soral finished by stating that such a course could only push other minorities to form political religious movements in order to be heard.

In December 2022, Alain Soral was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment by the regional attorney general for Lausanne for defamation, discrimination, and incitement to hatred after appearing in an online video attacking Swiss journalist Cathy Macherel.

Alain Soral contested the sentence in court and was initially able to avoid jail time, but was convicted in court of defamation and ordered to pay 9000 francs.

However, the Vaud public prosecutor's office lodged an appeal and Alain Soral was convicted of discrimination and incitement to hatred and sentenced to 2 months imprisonment in October 2023.

Alain Soral is the president of Equality and Reconciliation, a far-right organisation that promotes antisemitic, misogynist and homophobic ideas.