Nazi takes stand in Montreal courtroom
Gabriel Sohier Chaput appeared in a Montreal courtroom this week, on one charge of fomenting hatred, but his lawyer held the position that we don’t know that the Nazis killed six million Jews. Transcripts of Sohier Chaput’s writings in these items are testament to Sohier Chaput’s will to foster hatred, I think. The judge will render his verdict on January 23.
Tim S. 09:45 on 2022-11-26 Permalink
As far as I can tell, this is happening because the prosecutor seems incredibly lazy (overworked, maybe?) and by not bothering to prove things that are easily provable is giving the defence the chance to play games.
From CTV: “Emmanuelle Amar, Quebec policy and research director at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs,” is correct that “”The Holocaust is the most carefully documented genocide in the world, it was documented by its perpetrators, by their victims, by bystanders; there is physical evidence, there is all kinds of evidence of the Holocaust,” she said. “It’s an undisputed fact.”
And the prosecutor is acting like a seventh-grader to suggest: “that the judge could look in the Encyclopaedia Britannica”
Why not get Amar to testify?
Given that the case revolves around the defendant’s use of language I would hope that the court would want to define the words in question very carefully.
John B 11:26 on 2022-11-26 Permalink
Also going from the CTV article, I don’t think the prosecutor should have to prove the holocaust was done by Nazis, and it should be “judicially noticed.” In fact, I’m kind of astounded that someone who is a judge thinks there’s enough room for discussion that he “rebuked the prosecution for not calling an expert witness to establish that the murder of Jews by the regime of Adolf Hitler was a consequence of Nazi ideology.”