French Senate foils vote on bill penalizing Armenian Genocide denial
Genocide | 04.05.11 | 22:12
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The upper house of the French parliament on Wednesday failed to
approve a bill that would make denial of the Ottoman-era genocide of
Armenians punishable under the Fifth Republic’s law.
After a long debate 196 senators voted to back a committee motion not
to put the bill to vote. Only 74 members voted against this proposal.
According to agency reports, during the debate and subsequent vote
representatives of the Armenian community of France were holding a
protest outside the Senate building demanding that senators adopt the
bill.
The French National Assembly, the lower chamber of the country’s
bicameral parliament, passed the Armenian Genocide Bill in 2001. Five
years later it also approved a bill penalizing the denial of the
Armenian Genocide that needs the Senate’s vote to be enforced.
Denial of the Armenian Genocide is legislatively recognized as a crime
in Switzerland, Argentina and Uruguay.
From: A. Papazian
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