- PARIS (Reuters) - France
is checking whether it can take legal action against a leading far-right
politician who has questioned whether the Nazis used gas chambers in the
Holocaust, Justice Minister Dominique Perben said on Thursday.
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- The University of Lyon has urged education officials
to suspend Bruno Gollnisch, a professor of Japanese there, for questioning
how the gas chambers were used in the wartime slaughter of the Jews and
querying the death toll.
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- The president of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell,
also called for legal action against Gollnisch, a European deputy who is
also the number two man in the National Front party of extreme-right leader
Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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- "Mr Gollnisch's comments are absolutely unacceptable,"
Perben told France Info radio in announcing the probe.
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- "In an affair like this, I think the response should
not only be penal ... but it should be political and possibly also professional."
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- France anti-racism laws have made denying the Holocaust
a crime, punishable by fines and even prison.
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- Gollnisch, who is known as the intellectual of the controversial
party, said on Monday he recognized that the gas chambers had existed but
thought historians still had to decide whether they were actually used
to kill Jews.
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- He called for an open debate about whether the total
number of Jews killed in the Holocaust was actually 6 million as stated.
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- He also questioned the objectivity of leading historian
Henry Rousso, who is investigating charges that certain Lyon lecturers
were denying the Holocaust, by calling him "a Jewish personality".
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- The CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish organizations
publicly condemned Gollnisch's comments at a news conference about Rousso's
report on Holocaust denial at Lyon University.
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- European Parliament head Borrell said: "I would
like to say clearly to public opinion in Europe and to all those who suffered
from Nazi ethnic cleansing that the European Parliament will not tolerate
this kind of statement."
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- At his Monday news conference, Gollnisch also said that
serious historians no longer accepted that all the judgements of the post-war
Nuremberg Trials of leading Nazis were fair.
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- "I don't know if I will lose my chair as professor
of Japanese or even be put in prison for saying that, but I stand by it,"
he added.
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- Gollnisch, who studied law and political science at Kyoto
University in Japan, holds a chair for Japanese language and civilization
at the Lyon university named after Jean Moulin - the hero of the French
Resistance murdered by the Nazis in 1943.
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- Comment
- From MMuehlbauer
- 10-22-4
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- "Gollnisch, who studied law and political science
at Kyoto University in Japan, holds a chair for Japanese language and civilization
at the Lyon university named after Jean Moulin - the hero of the French
Resistance murdered by the Nazis in 1943."
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- How was it murder and not war that took Jean Moulin's
life considering what Americans are doing to the Iraqi resistance in Iraq
today? Is it murder that the Israelis have been doing for decades-are
doing to the Palestinians today, the Palestinians resisting the Jewish
occupation of their country? It must be murder the Americans and the Israelis
are doing to the resistance fighter's in Iraq and Palestine today, if,
what the Germans did to the people in the French resistance WW2 was murder.
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- I take my hat off to Mr. Gollnisch a man who like Jean
Moulin is said to have been, that is, a fighter in the French resistance,
for, Mr. Gollnisch is truly fighting again the occupation of France - by
Zionist Jews.
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- Mr. Gollnisch is fighting liars and frauds as well...the
liars and frauds who need abusive laws to protect their "Holocaust
Story" from inspection and honest scientific examination, knowing
inspection will prove the story - as it is commonly taught - an essential
hoax...brilliantly exaggerated, i.e. The Greatest Hoax of The Twentieth
Century.
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- Muehlbauer
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