Bagis Continues Denying Fact Of Armenian Genocide

BAGIS CONTINUES DENYING FACT OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

11:12 . 24/03

The prosecution of Zurich finished the pre-trial investigation against
Turkish Minister for the EU Affairs and State Minister Egemen Bagis,
who denied the Armenian Genocide in the territory of Switzerland and
turned to the foreign ministry of Switzerland to process the case.

Zurich’s prosecutor general Christine Braunschweig said Egemen Bagis
is prosecuted under Article 261 of the Swiss Criminal Code. The
foreign ministry of Switzerland confirmed that the prosecution made
an inquiry on the immunity of the Turkish minister. “Such inquiries
and discussions between the prosecutor’s office and the foreign
ministry are usual. All the members of the foreign governments who
came to Davos to participate in the World Economic Forum have immunity
according to international law. But the final decision to initiate
a lawsuit against Egemen Bagis is not to be dealt with the foreign
ministry but the judicial bodies,” the response letter of the Swiss
foreign ministry says.

To note, Bagis had said in Zurich that he can state there was no
Armenian Genocide in a country where denying the Armenian Genocide is
a crime. “I am announcing today in Switzerland that the 1915 events
were not genocide. Let them come and arrest me,” Bagis said. After
this, Zurich’s prosecutor general Christine Braunschweig started
pre-investigation against Bagis.