Dec 13, 2006, 17:05 GMT
Paris - The French government is likely to charge a former literature professor for the negationist comments he made at Tehran's Holocaust conference, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said Wednesday.
Douste-Blazy told deputies in the National Assembly that the government would study legal avenues to charge negationist Robert Faurisson 'for the comments he made abroad concerning the Holocaust.'
Faurisson, who was invited to the Tehran conference as an 'expert' on the issue, was given a suspended sentence of three months in prison in early October by a Paris court for comments he made in 2005 on an Iranian satellite television station questioning the reality of the Holocaust.
In addition, he was expelled from university teaching because of his comments on the large-scale slaughter of Jews and other minorities by the Nazis.
Douste-Blazy said the Tehran conference on the Holocaust was 'unacceptable historically, morally and politically.'
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