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FRENCH POLITICIANS TO SEIZE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OVER ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL
RFi
http://www.english.rfi.fr/asia-pacific/20120131-french-politicians-seize-constitutional-court-over-armenia-genocide-law
Jan 31 2012
France
A number of politicians on Tuesday formally requested France's
Constitutional Council to examine the planned law which would punish
anyone who denies that the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman
Turks was genocide.
Two separate groups, including Senators and members of the French
lower house of parliament, say they have gathered more than the
minimum 60 signatures necessary to ask the council to test the law's
constitutionality.
"This is an atomic bomb for the Elysee [Sarkozy's office] which
didn't see it coming," said deputy Lionel Tardy, who also claimed
that most of the signatories from the lower house were like him,
from Sarkozy's UMP party.
The council must make a ruling on the matter within one month.
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan immediately welcomed the news.
"I hope the council will do what's necessary," said Erdogan, while
Gul said he was "not expecting the French from the very beginning to
let their country be overshadowed" by the genocide law.
RFi
http://www.english.rfi.fr/asia-pacific/20120131-french-politicians-seize-constitutional-court-over-armenia-genocide-law
Jan 31 2012
France
A number of politicians on Tuesday formally requested France's
Constitutional Council to examine the planned law which would punish
anyone who denies that the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman
Turks was genocide.
Two separate groups, including Senators and members of the French
lower house of parliament, say they have gathered more than the
minimum 60 signatures necessary to ask the council to test the law's
constitutionality.
"This is an atomic bomb for the Elysee [Sarkozy's office] which
didn't see it coming," said deputy Lionel Tardy, who also claimed
that most of the signatories from the lower house were like him,
from Sarkozy's UMP party.
The council must make a ruling on the matter within one month.
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan immediately welcomed the news.
"I hope the council will do what's necessary," said Erdogan, while
Gul said he was "not expecting the French from the very beginning to
let their country be overshadowed" by the genocide law.