A 36-year-old Montrealer is found guilty of willfully fomenting hatred against Jews.
Judge Manlio Del Negro, of the Court of Quebec, found that Gabriel Sohier Chaput intended to promote hatred against the Jewish people in a 2017 article written for the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer.
The article — one of more than 800 articles written by Sohier Chaput for this site — called for “uninterrupted Nazism, everywhere”. Judge Del Negro concludes that the defendant sought to foment violence against Jews.
Sohier Chaput had pleaded at trial that the article was intended to be humorous and ironic, but the judge concluded that this thesis was not credible.
The closing arguments began in July, but the trial was extended by hearings to discuss the link that the judge could form between Nazi ideology and the Holocaust if no expert witness had come to clearly establish it at trial.
The defense argued that the prosecution failed to sufficiently prove this link between Nazi ideology and the Holocaust.
Judge Del Negro rules that this link between Nazi ideology and the murder of millions of Jews during World War II is so notorious and incontrovertible that it is not subject to debate among reasonable people.
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