A 57-year-old Val d'Aosta man was
fined 5,000 euros Wednesday for installing a Nazi eagle and
triangles worn by concentration camp inmates on two gates
outside his house in Saint-Vincent.
Fabrizio Fournier was also found guilty of posting Holocaust
denial sttaments on social media including the comments "the gas
chambers are fake news" and "people were put down as monsters
who were not that, such as the great Adolf Hitler".
Fournier, who called himself 'Nazi', also posted a Facebook
photo of him giving the Nazi saluate and complained that he had
been born on Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27.
He was found guilty of instigating hatred.
He was also sentenced to pay compensation to three civil
plaintiffs: 20,000 euros to Turin's Jewish community, 10,000
euros to the Val d'Aosta regional government, and 5,000 euros to
Italian partisans association ANPI.
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