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VALERIE BOYER PLEDGES TO CONTINUE STRUGGLE FOR GENOCIDE BILL ADOPTION
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 6, 2012 - 16:44 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenians in Marseille stand ready to vote for
French parliamentary candidate Valerie Boyer, member of the Union
for a Popular Movement.
During meeting with Armenian community in the framework of her election
campaign, the author of the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide
denial voiced intention to continue activity aimed at adoption of
the draft law.
"I promise not to weaken efforts. We will once again ask for a similar
bill to be submitted to the parliament," she said.
The meeting further featured screening of the film about the Genocide
memories.
On January 23, the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the
Armenian Genocide. The bill envisaged imposing a 45,000 euro fine and
a year in prison for anyone in France who denies this crime against
humanity committed by the Ottoman Empire.
Later, the French Constitutional Council ruled that a bill adopted
by the French Senate making it a crime to deny the Armenian Genocide
was anti-constitutional.
In a statement the Council said the bill adopted by parliament on
January 23 represented an "unconstitutional breach of the practice
of freedom of expression and communication." Turkey reacted furiously
when the Senate approved the law. Ankara halted political and military
cooperation with France and was threatening to cut off economic and
cultural ties if the law took effect.
Immediately after French Constitutional Council ruling, the then
President Nicolas Sarkozy instructed the government to submit a new
draft law punishing the denial of the Armenian Genocide.
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 6, 2012 - 16:44 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenians in Marseille stand ready to vote for
French parliamentary candidate Valerie Boyer, member of the Union
for a Popular Movement.
During meeting with Armenian community in the framework of her election
campaign, the author of the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide
denial voiced intention to continue activity aimed at adoption of
the draft law.
"I promise not to weaken efforts. We will once again ask for a similar
bill to be submitted to the parliament," she said.
The meeting further featured screening of the film about the Genocide
memories.
On January 23, the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the
Armenian Genocide. The bill envisaged imposing a 45,000 euro fine and
a year in prison for anyone in France who denies this crime against
humanity committed by the Ottoman Empire.
Later, the French Constitutional Council ruled that a bill adopted
by the French Senate making it a crime to deny the Armenian Genocide
was anti-constitutional.
In a statement the Council said the bill adopted by parliament on
January 23 represented an "unconstitutional breach of the practice
of freedom of expression and communication." Turkey reacted furiously
when the Senate approved the law. Ankara halted political and military
cooperation with France and was threatening to cut off economic and
cultural ties if the law took effect.
Immediately after French Constitutional Council ruling, the then
President Nicolas Sarkozy instructed the government to submit a new
draft law punishing the denial of the Armenian Genocide.