Prosecutors in France opened a preliminary criminal investigation on Tuesday into French MP Gilles Bourdouleix from the centre-right UDI party, after he allegedly suggested "Hitler did not exterminate enough" Roma during the Holocaust.
He is alleged to have made the shocking remarks when he was involved in a heated exchange with a French traveller community, who has set up camp in his town.
Local prosecutor Yves Gambert said his office had opened a probe into Bourdouleix's, who could now face charges of "defending a crime against humanity"
After the National Front's Jean-Marie Le Pen landed himself in trouble recently for calling the Roma community "smelly" and "rash-inducing, and the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi branded the same community "criminals" in a recent outburst, Bourdouleix the MP from the Maine and Loire region of western France, has become the latest to cause offence when talking about a travelling community.
The MP went to meet members of a travelling community who had just set up home in field in the commune of Cholet, where he is also deputy mayor. Full story...
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He is alleged to have made the shocking remarks when he was involved in a heated exchange with a French traveller community, who has set up camp in his town.
Local prosecutor Yves Gambert said his office had opened a probe into Bourdouleix's, who could now face charges of "defending a crime against humanity"
After the National Front's Jean-Marie Le Pen landed himself in trouble recently for calling the Roma community "smelly" and "rash-inducing, and the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi branded the same community "criminals" in a recent outburst, Bourdouleix the MP from the Maine and Loire region of western France, has become the latest to cause offence when talking about a travelling community.
The MP went to meet members of a travelling community who had just set up home in field in the commune of Cholet, where he is also deputy mayor. Full story...
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