Changes are not made in the new French bill that criminalizes the denial of genocides—including the Armenian Genocide—, and this could become grounds for the country’s Constitutional Council to consider the bill unconstitutional yet again. Armenian National Congress France Executive Director Hratch Varjabedian told this to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The person behind the new bill is again French MP Valerie Boyer, who had introduced a similar bill last year to the French National Assembly. Just like before, the bill sets a one-year prison sentence plus a 45-thousand-Euro fine for anyone who denies genocides.

Varjabedian stated that French President François Hollande had promised that the government will prepare a new bill and introduce it to the country’s National Assembly. 

“We are awaiting the fulfillment of the promise,” Hratch Varjabedian said.