Garaudy Fined for Questioning Holocaust

February 28, 1998 - 0:0
PARIS A French court on Friday fined French writer Roger Garaudy 120,000 francs ($19,770) for questioning the Holocaust. Anti-racism groups had taken Garaudy to court for questioning the extermination of Jews in his book the founding myths of Israeli politics, in which he argued that calling Nazi crimes a genocide was an exaggeration. Garaudy, a former communist party leader who converted to Christianity and later to Islam, has denied any wrongoing.