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"Mr President, I shall be very brief, as you have asked us to be, but I am raising a point of order on behalf of my Group, in order to register our disapproval of the fact that in his explanatory statement, Richard Howitt mentions the Danish People’s Party amongst racist and extreme-right parties. On behalf of my colleague Mogens Camre, I wish to categorically repudiate this categorisation and in particular the misleading nature of the text, given that the report refers to a leader of a neo-Nazi party in Denmark, which has nothing to do with the Danish People’s Party. I would also like to make it clear, in this Chamber, that these unjustified and extravagant accusations were the subject of a court case which was ruled upon in Denmark in 1999 and the originator of these accusations was found guilty. The court found that these accusations had been proved to be unjustified and convicted the person responsible for this defamation. I regret that this defamation has been echoed in this House and we will send a copy of the court’s judgement to the Bureau. I would request the Bureau to forward this judgement to Mr Howitt also, and to any other Members interested in it.
I wish to emphasise that the leaders of the Danish People’s Party were involved in the resistance against the Nazi invasion, which cannot unfortunately be said about certain former leaders of other political groupings in Denmark."@en1
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