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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, even though the report on the request for defence of immunity and privileges of my colleague, Mr Gollnisch, will be debated shortly, I take the liberty of bringing up a particularly topical point.
Last week, the French Prime Minister, Mr de Villepin, stated with strength and conviction that it was not up to the legislator to establish historical truth. He said that there was no official history in France. A few days later, the Head of State, Mr Chirac, made similar remarks by saying: ‘In the Republic, there is no official history. It is not up to the law to write history; that is a matter for historians’.
What, then, are the French political and judicial authorities accusing Mr Gollnisch of? Of having said exactly the same thing a few months beforehand, namely that it was up to historians to study the issues relating to the Second World War, whatever the views of some of my French fellow Members, who set themselves up as the thought police, going so far as to exert unacceptable political pressure so that Mr Gollnisch’s request for defence of immunity will be rejected.
In these conditions, ladies and gentlemen, I urge you not to plumb the depths of absurdity by adopting this report."@en1
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