A French court has fined an MP 3,000 euros for saying that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler "maybe did not kill enough" Roma, a minority group of Indian ancestry, reports 9News.
The appeals court in the Western town of Angers slapped the fine, equivalent to $4,000, on Gilles Bourdouleix, who is also mayor of the nearby town of Cholet.
The 54-year-old was involved in an altercation in July last year during a visit to a field in his commune that was occupied illegally by a travellers' community.
Accused of racism and assailed by Hitler salutes, Bourdouleix mumbled to a journalist that "maybe Hitler didn't kill enough of them".
A local French paper carried a report the next day with his comments and the resulting uproar forced him to resign from his party, the centrist UDI.
The Roma, a nomadic people whose ancestors left India centuries ago, have long suffered from discrimination and are frequently accused of carrying out petty crimes.
They were killed in their hundreds of thousands by the Nazis during the Second World War, alongside Jews and homosexuals.
In January, he was convicted for condoning a crime against humanity and fined 3,000 euros but the fine was suspended.
But both the prosecution and Bourdouleix appealed, the latter saying he was innocent given the context in which he spoke.
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