Necessary changes not made in French bill criminalizing denial of
genocides – Armenian National Congress

NEWS.AM
February 14, 2013 | 01:52

Changes are not made in the new French bill that criminalizes the
denial of genocides – including the Armenian Genocide – , and this could
become grounds for the country’s Constitutional Council to consider
the bill unconstitutional yet again. Armenian National Congress France
Executive Director Hratch Varjabedian told this to Armenian
News-NEWS.am.

The person behind the new bill is again French MP Valerie Boyer, who
had introduced a similar bill last year to the French National
Assembly. Just like before, the bill sets a one-year prison sentence
plus a 45-thousand-Euro fine for anyone who denies genocides.

Varjabedian stated that French President François Hollande had
promised that the government will prepare a new bill and introduce it
to the country’s National Assembly.

`We are awaiting the fulfillment of the promise,’ Hratch Varjabedian said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress