French Political and Cultural Elite for Approving Bill on Genocide by Senate

January 18, 2007 - 15:40 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - France of Justice, Arts, Literature and Political, joined together their forces to make adopt by the French Senate the bill against the negation of the Armenian Genocide voted by the Parliament on October 12, 2006. "Together against negationism!" was the formula call of the meeting. "In front an assembly joining together more 1500 people to the "Palaisde la Mutualite" in Paris, celebrates singer Charles Aznavour, Serge Klarsfeld, "hunter of Nazis", writer philosophizes Bernard Henri Levy and several other representatives all tendencies of the French political, whose deputy Patrick Devedjian, to advise of the candidate to the presidency of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, and François Holland, general secretary of French socialist party, followed one another on the platform to denounce the Turkish State negationism," told independent French journalist Jean Eckian to PanARMENIAN.Net



It is worth mentioning that if this law is endorsed soon by the French Senate, the dispute of the Armenian Genocide will be punished one year of prison and 45.000 euros of fine.
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