Montreal man guilty of promoting hatred against Jews in article on neo-Nazi site
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A 36-year-old Montreal man was found guilty Monday of wilfully promoting hatred against Jews in a 2017 article he wrote for a neo-Nazi website.
A 36-year-old Montreal man was found guilty Monday of wilfully promoting hatred against Jews in a 2017 article he wrote for a neo-Nazi website.
Quebec court Judge Manlio Del Negro ruled that Gabriel Sohier Chaput intended to promote hate against Jewish people in the article published by the Daily Stormer. The judge ordered that Sohier Chaput be taken into custody, describing him as someone "extremely dangerous" to the public.
In his ruling, Del Negro found that Sohier Chaput "actively promoted the detestation of people of the Jewish faith. Not only did he foment hate, he encouraged his readers to act."
The article, one of more than 800 that Sohier Chaput wrote for the site, contained an ethnic slur against Chinese people in the title and referred to neo-Nazis "triggering" Jews.
Sohier Chaput admitted to writing part of the article, including a section that said 2017 would be "the year of action" and that called for "non-stop Nazism everywhere until the streets are flooded with the tears of our enemies."
Del Negro rejected the accused's claim that some of the article's more inflammatory slurs, including a reference to a Holocaust survivor as an "oven dodger," were written by someone else. The judge noted that Sohier Chaput, who wrote under the name "Zeiger," had never attempted to distance himself from the article until his trial.
That said, even the parts of the article Sohier Chaput admitted to writing, and the context in which they appeared, were sufficient to convict him, Del Negro said.
