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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.

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