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"Mr President, in accordance with Article 122 of the old Rules of Procedure, and Article 145 of the new Rules of Procedure, I have the honour of making a personal statement.
I was immensely surprised to learn, Mr President, that, firstly, you did me a great disservice during the press conference attended by Mrs Leyla Zana; secondly, you wrote a
that attacked me personally on 14 October, and thirdly, you referred to a condemnation on the part of the Bureau on 13 October, which in fact appears in point 15 of the Bureau’s summary of decisions and which calls on you to condemn my allegedly, I quote, ‘revisionist statements’. As it happens, Mr President, I did not make any such revisionist statement in the way in which I believe you understand that term.
which was on strike on the day of my conference but was represented there by a journalist, completely rectified the impression given by a truncated, distorted and vindictive report. The Lyons weekly
whose editor, Mr Florent Dessus, a distinguished Lyons journalist, former chairman of the
a constant political opponent and once again my rival in the last elections, but who was, himself, in attendance at the conference, redressed the injustice in the following terms: ‘all of these reactions, all of this furore would have been perfectly understandable if Mr Gollnisch had actually denied the existence of the gas chambers, which was not the case. If he had actually said the words that are being ascribed to him, we would have been the first to condemn them, but it so happens that we cannot make him say the opposite of what he said’, and he published my press conference in full.
I can understand, Mr President, that certain individuals have reproduced, magnified or distorted a false, truncated and vindictive report. I admit, however – with respect to you as a person and in your role – that I cannot understand how you, as President of this House – an informed politician and guardian of the freedom of debates and of the rights of the Members of this House – and the Bureau of this House, which never stops offering advice to the entire world on human rights, were able to condemn me without hearing, or even seeking to hear, me, and without even notifying me of your condemnation, and this following a hasty denunciation by two or three of my political opponents. In so doing, Mr President, I feel that you have breached the adversarial principle, the declaration of human rights and the general principles of European law. May I remind you, in this regard, that, even in Stalinist trails, they at least made the pretence of having the accused appear in person. Consequently, Mr President, I should like to ask you, if I may, for an interview during this part-session, so that we can work out together, if you are willing to do so, how I am to receive the moral redress that I am looking for and to which I am entitled."@en1
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