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Bruno Gollnisch (France, EU)
EU-Parliament Deputy Bruno Gollnisch To Be Jailed. Called For Open Debate On Holocaust 6 Million. New York Times November 29, 2004 France Opens Judicial Inquiry into Holocaust Doubter PARIS (Reuters) - French prosecutors said Monday they were opening a judicial investigation into comments by a leading far-right politician who questioned whether the Nazis used gas chambers in the Holocaust. Justice Minister Dominique Perben called for the inquiry after Bruno Gollnisch, a professor of Japanese at the University of Lyon, questioned how the gas chambers were used in the wartime slaughter of Jews and how many Jews were killed. Prosecutors in the southern city of Lyon said the investigation would focus on "denying crimes against humanity." France anti-racism laws have made denying the Holocaust a crime, punishable by fines and even prison. Prosecutors last month had already opened a preliminary investigation into the comments by Gollnisch, a European deputy [Member of the EU-Parliament] who is also the number two man in the National Front party of extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Gollnisch told a news conference last month he recognized gas chambers had existed but said he thought historians still had to decide whether they were actually used to kill Jews. Bruno Gollnisch at head office of National Front in January 2006 He called for an open debate about whether the total number of Jews killed in the Holocaust was actually 6 million as stated. The CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish organizations has publicly condemned Gollnisch's comments, and European Parliament head Josep Borrell said the European assembly would not tolerate such a statement. Gollnisch, who studied law and political science at Kyoto University in Japan, holds a chair for Japanese language and civilisation at the Lyon university Source: http://globalfire.tv/nj/04en/persecution/gollnisch.htm |
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