Vincent Reynouard was born on 18 February 1969 and is a French Holocaust denier and proponent of neo-Nazism.
14 Facts About Vincent Reynouard
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Vincent Reynouard has been convicted and jailed in France under the Gayssot Act, which bars Holocaust denial.
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Vincent Reynouard had an active role in the French and European Nationalist Party in which he was briefly the Secretary General in 1991.
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In 1991, Vincent Reynouard was convicted of distributing Holocaust denial literature.
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Vincent Reynouard had given high school students materials "questioning the existence of the gas chambers".
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Vincent Reynouard was tried along with Remi Pontier, the first two people convicted under the Act.
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At the time, Reynouard was being investigated by French authorities, and he had chosen to go into exile in Belgium, where he took up residence with a Catholic fundamentalist group in Ixelles, Brussels with close ties to the Society of Saint Pius X Reynouard ran the group's French-language operations.
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In 2004, Vincent Reynouard was convicted by a French court of crimes under the 1990 Gayssot Act for distributing a pamphlet and videocassette that questioned the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, in which many French villagers were killed.
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Vincent Reynouard was sentenced to 24 months in prison, of which 18 months were suspended.
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In November 2015, Vincent Reynouard was tried before a Normandy court for Holocaust denial in Facebook posts.
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Vincent Reynouard, who chose to represent himself at trial, was sentenced to two years in jail; the sentence was enhanced due to Vincent Reynouard's prior convictions.
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In November 2022, Vincent Reynouard was arrested in Scotland, having fled France in an attempt to evade two separate terms of imprisonment, handed down by the French authorities in November 2020 and January 2021 respectively.
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At the time of his arrest, Vincent Reynouard was living under a false identity in Anstruther, where he had reportedly been working as a private tutor.
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Vincent Reynouard was extradited from Scotland to France to face charges there.