The CFC welcomes the adoption by Parliament of a text penalizing the denial of genocides that have not only been convicted by an international court, but also, earlier, as the Armenians.

Genocide is the ultimate form of racism, hatred and violence. And Holocaust denial is, in the words of Bernard-Henri Lévy, the highest stage of genocide, therefore a particular expression of this hatred, this racism and violence that led notably to the annihilation of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire first genocide of the twentieth century.

By adopting the second time in less than five years a provision against Holocaust denial, the French Parliament as a whole implicitly denounce the behavior of accomplices Turkish authorities until today, through denial and concealment, extermination Armenians.

It is also launching a strong message to national and international scopes, on the incompatibility of attacks on the victims of crimes against humanity and the principles of living together.

This positioning reinforces the fundamentals of the Republic which are based on respect for human dignity. It is of crucial symbolic strength in troubled times where reappear obscurantist and totalitarian ideologies which, not having been sanctioned after the Armenian genocide, continue to sow death and destruction not only on the same land where the incident occurred there are a hundred years, but also to Europe and France.

National Bureau of CCAF (Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France)