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"Since we are talking about human rights, I shall raise once again the violations of the rights of intellectuals of all specialisms who dare to express independent opinions on history, leading them, for example, to re-examine certain aspects of the Second World War and the tragedy of the concentration camps. A tragedy which, unfortunately, is currently exploited relentlessly on a daily basis to profit political or financial interests which have little to do with the memory of the victims.
In fact, at the present time, there are thousands of historians, sociologists, researchers, academics or just plain citizens being persecuted in Europe when their only crime is wanting to make a free examination of the dogmas – changing dogmas moreover – that the official authors impose.
As I did in 1999, I shall give just one example, taken from our rapporteur’s own region of Rhône-Alpes. A penniless young historian, a person I did not know, Mr Plantin, was condemned just for the crime of mentioning, in a bibliography in the scholarly review he edits, works that correct historical errors to which no serious historian now adheres. He was arrested. His personal computer was confiscated. Each of the usual funded associations suing him obtained heavy damages against him and his printer, a rural craftsman.
The magistrates of the Lyon Court of Appeal, Dominique Fournier, Jean-Luc Gouverneur and Marie-Odile Théolleyre, also banned publication of the review with a ruling worthy of Stalin’s court. The counsellors at the Court of Cassation, Bruno Cotte, Christine Chanet and Guy Joly, failed in their duty by not censuring the manifestly abusive use in the case of a law on publications intended for young people.
What is more, under pressure and quite unlawfully, Professors Régis Ladous and Claude Prudhomme made themselves look ridiculous and odious by revoking, eleven years on, Mr Plantin’s master’s degree which they had marked ‘Very Good’ in full knowledge of the facts.
All this is going on in the twenty-first century, in France and in other European countries! Such persecution obviously only strengthens the doubt surrounding the official dogmas. It is unworthy and intolerable. It must end as soon as possible."@en1
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