On the evening of Wednesday, November 19, 2014, two police officers from the nearby city of Clermont-Ferrand, one of whom a commander, went to the home of Professor Faurisson in Vichy in order to conduct a search: they were looking to seize a computer and certain documents. They found neither the computer nor the documents.
The Strasbourg office of the LICRA (“international
league against racism and anti-semitism”) had requested the local public
prosecutor to take action against the appearance, on an “Unofficial Blog” of
professor Faurisson, of two articles about the wartime camp of
Natzweiler-Struthof in Alsace:
“It is time to have done with the Struthof ‘gas
chamber’ and its 86 ‘victims’”
“Note on the alleged Struthof gas chamber”
Declaring its lack of jurisdiction, the
Strasbourg prosecutor’s office had referred the case to that in the small town
of Cusset on the outskirts of Vichy, where an investigating magistrate had, in
turn, ordered the aforementioned Clermont-Ferrand police commander to
investigate.
French law authorises searches only between
6am and 9pm (however, if a search has begun at 8.45pm it may continue beyond
9pm). But the professor – whose case is decidedly a particular one – can also
see the BAC (anti-violent crime section) suddenly appear at his house in the
middle of the night. This has happened twice, while thus far there have been a
total of five searches.
This November
19 the commander, upon taking leave, said that his present “visit” would be
followed by other “visits”.
The professor’s wife, aged 82 and
with a heart condition, finds it quite hard to bear this state of things. She
worries about the health of her husband, nearly 86, recently a heart attack
victim himself and also victim, over the years, of ten physical assaults (none
of which has ever given rise to a serious search for the attackers). It is worth pointing out that the two officers assigned to this search were of irreproachable conduct from beginning to end.
November 21, 2014
