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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8868

18 January 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/national front
Bernard Poignant and Martine Roure demand response to negationist ideas of jean-Marie Le Pen

Brussels, 17/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - French socialists Bernard Poignant and Martine Roure, MEP shave criticised in a press statement the negationist ideas expressed by Jean-Marie Le Pen MEP, president of the Front national, who stated in a far right magazine Rivarol that the German occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane" and that there had to be a reason for the massacre at Ouradour. Mr Poignant pointed out that on 10 June 1944, "the peaceful village of Ouradour-sur-Glane was...

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