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The French Constitutional Council’s ruling to declare genocide denial criminalization bill unconstitutional actually puts a end to the memory laws in France, the ex chief of the Council has said.

In an interview with the French-Armenian publication Nouvelles d’Armenie, Robert Badinter noted particularly that it is not up to a country’s parliament to decide matters relating to history.

“All kinds of revisions and debates over Genocide are odious, as it is, but we cannot grant the parliament competences it does not have. This ruling of the Constitutional Council marks the end of the memory laws, but the Armenian communities can naturally call upon all the judicial bodies to recognize the fact of the Armenian Genocide,” he said.  Read more... (131 words)

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