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FRENCH SENATORS LACK VOTES TO PROTEST GENOCIDE BILL
PanARMENIAN.Net
January 26, 2012 - 14:19 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - French Senators have only 48 hours left to protest
the bill penalizing Armenian Genocide denial at Constitutional Court.
By now, the number of French MPs protesting the bill has reached 35,
with Turkish-French friendship group chair, the Union for a Popular
Movement (UPM) member Michel Diefenbacher, other UPM members and some
oppositional Socialists among the malcontent.
With 60 parliamentarians necessary to appeal to the Constitutional
Court, experts are skeptical the necessary number of supporters will
be reached.
On January 23, the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the
Armenian Genocide denial with 127 votes for and 86 against. To be
signed into law within 14 days, the bill will impose 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.
PanARMENIAN.Net
January 26, 2012 - 14:19 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - French Senators have only 48 hours left to protest
the bill penalizing Armenian Genocide denial at Constitutional Court.
By now, the number of French MPs protesting the bill has reached 35,
with Turkish-French friendship group chair, the Union for a Popular
Movement (UPM) member Michel Diefenbacher, other UPM members and some
oppositional Socialists among the malcontent.
With 60 parliamentarians necessary to appeal to the Constitutional
Court, experts are skeptical the necessary number of supporters will
be reached.
On January 23, the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the
Armenian Genocide denial with 127 votes for and 86 against. To be
signed into law within 14 days, the bill will impose 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.