France’s far-right Front National has suspended a party official for Holocaust denial after he suggested there was no mass killing in the Nazi concentration camps. Benoît Loeuillet, head of the FN in Nice, was secretly filmed making the comments, which will be broadcast in a documentary. Jean-Marie Le Pen fined again for dismissing Holocaust as 'detail' Read moreAsked by the journalist filming him about Holocaust deniers, Loeuillet, said: “I don’t really know what to think. When the party failed to respond to their request, the journalists recorded officials in secret for two months. “Daesh is THIS!” Le Pen said in angry tweets showing the killings, posts that drew revulsion and criticism from bereaved families and French politicians across the political spectrum.

Source: The Guardian March 15, 2017 15:10 UTC