PARIS. – French MP François Rochebloine, who is also vice president of the France-Armenia Friendship Group at the French National Assembly, issued a statement. 

In the statement, Rochebloine expressed his regret over the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment on the Dogu Perincek case, Nouvelles d’Arménie reports.

“Under the name of the protection of the right to the freedom of expressing opinion, the denial of the apparent fact is strengthened, and this [comes] at a time when a movement, which acknowledges the fact of the genocide, is emerging within the Turkish civil society. Solely the search for the truth liberates and makes strong. Sadly, the ECtHR has forgotten about that,” Rochebloine said in his statement.    

The ECtHR recently ruled in favor of Armenian Genocide-denying Turkish politician Dogu Perincek’s lawsuit that was filed against Switzerland. The said judgment by European Court of Human Rights was made on the grounds of freedom of speech. In 2008, a Swiss court had convicted Perincek for denying the Armenian Genocide. Dogu Perincek is Chairman of the socialist Workers’ Party of Turkey. In addition, he heads the Talat Pasha organization, which actively fights against the Armenian Genocide’s recognition in Europe.