Alain Soral

Alain Soral
BornAlain Bonnet
(1958-10-02) 2 October 1958 (age 66)
Aix-les-Bains, France
Occupation
NationalityFrench, Swiss
SubjectCapitalism, communitarianism, feminism, Zionism
SpouseMaylis Bourdenx (1996–2009)
RelativesAgnès Soral

Alain Bonnet, known as Alain Soral (French: [alɛ̃ sɔʁal]; born 2 October 1958), is a far-right[A] Franco-Swiss ideologue, essayist, filmmaker, and actor.

Having been a member of the French Communist Party in the 1990s,[1] Soral worked for the National Front before leaving in 2009. In 2007, he founded his own political association, Égalité & Réconciliation (Equality and Reconciliation), with former GUD members. At the same time, he also launched a publishing company, KontreKulture, which he uses to publish contemporary controversial authors. In 2019, Soral received a prison sentence in France for using anti-semitic slurs to label the Pantheon in a video,[2] incentive to racial hatred,[3][4] apology of crime against humanity, and Holocaust denial.[5][6] In 2023, he received another prison sentence, this time in Switzerland, for defamation, discrimination, and incitement to hatred.[7]

  1. ^ "Alain Soral, mal dominant – Libération". liberation.fr (in French). 10 July 2002.
  2. ^ "Alain Soral condamné à un an de prison ferme pour injure publique antisémite". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2 October 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Alain Soral condamné à payer 134 400 euros à la Ligue contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme". Le Monde.fr (in French). 25 September 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Peine alourdie en appel pour Alain Soral, qui avait imputé aux juifs l'incendie de Notre-Dame". Le Figaro (in French). 19 May 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Alain Soral condamné à trois mois de prison ferme après la publication d'un dessin négationniste". Franceinfo (in French). 14 March 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Négationnisme : Alain Soral condamné en appel, sa peine allégée". Le Monde.fr (in French). 25 June 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Swiss LGBTQ+ rights groups hail 60-day sentence for polemicist who called journalist a 'fat lesbian'". Associated Press. 3 October 2023.