, Turkey
Jan 22 2012

French senate set to discuss Armenian bill on Monday

Upper house of the French parliament is set to discuss on Monday a
bill that makes it a crime to reject Armenian allegations on the
Ottoman era incidents of 1915.

Upper house of the French parliament is set to discuss on Monday a
bill that makes it a crime to reject Armenian allegations on the
Ottoman era incidents of 1915.

The bill penalizes rejection of the Armenian allegations on the
Ottoman era incidents of 1915 with a prison term of one year and a
fine of 45 thousand euros. And it is set to come to the Senate floor
on Monday but French senate members could vote to uphold an earlier
parliamentary committee decision and drop the bill off the agenda
without even debating it.

On Saturday nearly 40 thousand Turks living in France and other
European countries gathered in Paris to shun the bill.

A similar bill — proposed by the Socialist Party — was approved in
2006 by the lower house but the Senate rejected to debate the bill
last May when it upheld the committee’s decision back then.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress