The imprisonment of the odious Alain Soral sets a dangerous precedent.
By Andrea Seaman
Making anti-gay comments in Switzerland could now land you with a 60-day jail sentence and a hefty fine.
This is what has happened to Alain Bonnet, a 65-year-old Franco-Swiss polemicist who uses the pseudonym Alain Soral. In 2022, Soral released a video calling a female Swiss journalist a ‘fat lesbian’ and an ‘unhinged queer activist’. He was initially convicted of defamation and given a fine by a court in the canton of Vaud. Soral then appealed the decision, claiming it was unjust. The state prosecutor also appealed, claiming the judgement was insufficiently severe.
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