FRANCE’S NEWSRING POLL: IS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL NECESSARY?

PanARMENIAN.Net
July 24, 2012 – 14:03 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – A poll conducted on Newsring French news agency
website measured French society’s attitude to a possible adoption of
a bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial.

Current results of the poll show 87000 (60%) to favor the law, while
60000 (40%) are opposed to the bill.

On January 23, the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the
Armenian Genocide. The bill envisaged imposing a 45,000 euro fine and
a year in prison for anyone in France who denies this crime against
humanity committed by the Ottoman Empire.

Later, the French Constitutional Council ruled that a bill adopted
by the French Senate making it a crime to deny the Armenian Genocide
was anti-constitutional.

In July, French President Francois Hollande confirmed plans for a new
law criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide with representatives
of the Armenian community.