ARMENIANS OF FRANCE DEMAND A LAW AGAINST GENOCIDE DENIAL

Gibrahayer
Oct 7, 2008

Jean Eckian – Independent correspondent, Paris, October 1, 2008 –
About 300 Armenians gathered yesterday, October 1, in front of the
French Senate to require that the socialist bill, punishing with
one year imprisonment and 45,000 euros fine, the denial of Armenian
genocide adopted by The National Assembly (October 12, 2006), is
approved by senators as soon as possible.

Indeed, the past two years, France has been the scene of intense
denials with several desecrations of memorials and threats on the
individuals.

It’s with the slogan Â"Denial is a crime. For punishing it, I want
a Law! Â" chanted by the crowd, that several speakers of Armenian
organizations of France and French deputies have called the senators
to understand that civil security and public order are threatened
on French soil in the disrespect of the law of January 2001, which
stipulates:Â" France recognises publicly the Armenian genocide of
1915 Â".

Today, the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France
(CCAF) which had joined film director Robert Guediguian and his wife,
actress Ariane Ascaride, request that senators put the sanction of
the Armenian Genocide in the agenda of their work.

On In October 2006, at the casting of the French positive vote,
Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ha d declared in Erdine
(Turkey), Â" Because of certain limited representatives, France whom
we know as the country of freedom is obliged to live with this shame
Â", he had hammered. " If France does not cancel this text, It is
she who will lose and not Turkey ", he said.

Mourad Papazian, chairman of ARF Dashnaktsoutiu n Europe, in particular
announced another gathering in front of the French Senate on November
22 when nearly 10,000 people are expected to attend.

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