French Constitutional Council to decide on Genocide bill tonight

PanARMENIAN.Net - Today, February 28, 8 pm Yerevan time, the French Constitutional Council is set to decide on the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial, Nouvelles d`Arménie reports.

On January 23, the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial with 127 votes for and 86 against. Expected to be signed into law by President within 14 days, the bill will impose 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.

Two separate groups of French politicians who oppose the legislation - from both the Senate and the lower house - said they had formally requested the constitutional council examine the law. The groups said they each had gathered more than the minimum 60 signatures required to ask the council to test the law's constitutionality.