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16-12-05, 12:29
Le Pen's shock at Iranian president's Holocaust comments
French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has been convicted several times of making anti-Semitic remarks, said today that he was shocked by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments calling the Holocaust a myth.
Le Pen joined widespread condemnation of the Iranian leader’s remarks, which European Union foreign ministers called “totally unacceptable” in a statement yesterday.
“I find this shocking and I do not share at all the declarations of the Iranian president,” Le Pen told French radio France-Inter.
Ahmadinejad first provoked an international outcry in October when he called for Israel to be “wiped off the map".
Then, on Wednesday, he said in remarks carried live by state-run Iranian television that the Holocaust was a “myth” the Europeans used to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world.
“Today, they have created a myth in the name of Holocaust and consider it to be above God, religion and the prophets,” he said.
Le Pen has a history of making remarks that jar France, and has been convicted of racism or anti-Semitism at least six times. Once he called the Nazi gas chambers “a detail of the history of the Second World War".
He shocked France and the world by qualifying for a one-on-one run-off against President Jacques Chirac in presidential elections in 2002. Horrified voters from the left and right rallied behind Chirac in the second round, giving him a resounding 82% of the vote.
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=166155688&p=y66y56394
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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has been convicted several times of making anti-Semitic remarks, said today that he was shocked by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments calling the Holocaust a myth.
Le Pen joined widespread condemnation of the Iranian leader’s remarks, which European Union foreign ministers called “totally unacceptable” in a statement yesterday.
“I find this shocking and I do not share at all the declarations of the Iranian president,” Le Pen told French radio France-Inter.
Ahmadinejad first provoked an international outcry in October when he called for Israel to be “wiped off the map".
Then, on Wednesday, he said in remarks carried live by state-run Iranian television that the Holocaust was a “myth” the Europeans used to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world.
“Today, they have created a myth in the name of Holocaust and consider it to be above God, religion and the prophets,” he said.
Le Pen has a history of making remarks that jar France, and has been convicted of racism or anti-Semitism at least six times. Once he called the Nazi gas chambers “a detail of the history of the Second World War".
He shocked France and the world by qualifying for a one-on-one run-off against President Jacques Chirac in presidential elections in 2002. Horrified voters from the left and right rallied behind Chirac in the second round, giving him a resounding 82% of the vote.
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=166155688&p=y66y56394
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