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Thread ID: 16280 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-01-12
2005-01-12 20:25 | User Profile
Le Pen may face criminal charges for simply stating that the Nazi occupation of France was not 'particularly inhumane.'
[font=arial][size=2] **[size=+2] Le Pen irks French government with Nazi remarks [/size]**[/size][/font]
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** PARIS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - France threatened on Wednesday to take legal action against far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen for saying the Nazi occupation of France during World War Two had not been "particularly inhumane."
** The government, anti-racism organisations and Jewish groups sharply condemned Le Pen's latest controversial comments, made in an interview with right-wing weekly magazine Rivarol.
"It's not only the European Union and globalisation we have to free our country of. It's also the lies about its history, lies that are protected by exceptional measures," Le Pen said in comments published in Rivarol's Jan. 7 edition.
"In France, at least, the German occupation was not particularly inhumane, although there were some blunders, inevitable in a country of 550,000 sq km."
[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=2]The Justice Ministry called for a preliminary police inquiry to determine whether Le Pen's comments broke the law. [/size][/font][font=arial][size=2]
[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=2]"He should explain himself before the law," Justice Minister Dominique Perben told LCI television. [/size][/font][font=arial][size=2]
[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=2]France anti-racism laws have made denying the Holocaust a crime, punishable by fines or prison. [/size][/font][font=arial][size=2]
[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=2]Le Pen, who in 1987 dismissed the Holocaust as a "detail" of history, alarmed Europe in 2002 by reaching the second round of France's presidential election on an anti-immigrant and anti-Europe platform. [/size][/font][font=arial][size=2]
[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=2]During the Nazi German occupation of France from 1940 until 1944, about 76,000 Jews were deported. Only some 2,500 returned. [/size][/font][font=arial][size=2]
[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=2]The CRIF umbrella group of Jewish organisations said it was "shocked" by Le Pen's comments. [/size][/font][font=arial][size=2]
[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=2]"These statements tarnish the memory of all victims of Nazism ... and of the entire French population which was submitted to the most atrocious of occupations and humiliations for more than four years," it said. [/size][/font][font=arial][size=2]
[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=2]France's junior minister for veterans, Hamlaoui Mekachera, said he had read Le Pen's comments with "astonishment" and dismissed Le Pen's "attempts to rewrite history." [/size][/font][font=arial][size=2]
[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=2]Richard Serero, director-general of France's Licra anti-racism league, said of Le Pen: "These comments are shabby." [/size][/font][font=arial][size=2]
[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=2]French prosecutors have already opened a judicial investigation into comments by Le Pen's number two, Bruno Gollnisch, who questioned whether the Nazis used gas chambers in the Holocaust. [/size][/font][font=arial][size=2]
[/size][/font] [font=arial][size=2]Le Pen was convicted and ordered to pay a symbolic one franc fine for his 1987 comments, when he said the gas chambers were a "detail in the history of the Second World War."
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2005-01-12 21:00 | User Profile
Le Pen is the most prominent figure in the world with regards to White/European Nationalism. The man is a hero and he is correct about the German occupation of France 'not being particularily inhumane'. Even so, why does it "irk" people that he says this 60 years after the fact? It's ironic that people accuse him of trying to rewrite history, when the true history of that particular period has never been told. And The Phora denies Jews hold any kind of stranglehold over the West..... Silly wabbits.
2005-01-12 21:07 | User Profile
I think it is quite telling that this simple remark brings out the Jewish 'spokespersons' and 'anti-racism activists' in droves. How is it 'denying the Holocaust' or 'racist' to say that the Nazis didn't treat the French horribly once they had already occupied their country? The two things aren't even logically connected.
2005-01-13 02:15 | User Profile
Did you guys see Prince Andrew wearing the Nazi armband? hehehehehe, and the funny part about it is that next week the queen is supposed to be having some kind of nick nack for the so called holocausts survivors lolllllllll.
2005-01-13 14:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]Le Pen is the most prominent figure in the world with regards to White/European Nationalism. The man is a hero and he is correct about the German occupation of France 'not being particularily inhumane'. Even so, why does it "irk" people that he says this 60 years after the fact? It's ironic that people accuse him of trying to rewrite history, when the true history of that particular period has never been told. And The Phora denies Jews hold any kind of stranglehold over the West..... Silly wabbits.[/QUOTE]
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