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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, do not mention rope in the house of the hanged. This Parliament is making a hopeless fool of itself by entrusting this report to a Communist. It is an insult to all victims of the criminal Communist ideology. It is tantamount to asking Mrs Claude to write a report on moral corruption, or to ask Mr Bernard Cantat to write a report on violence against women. Mr Sylla has been elected on a Communist list; he must be the last person to talk to us about our fundamental rights. This was demonstrated once again in this Chamber this morning. I would refer in this connection to the shameful statements made by some of his group colleagues during the debate on Cuba this morning. These were like a slap in the face of the many poor souls behind bars in Cuba. Mr Sylla, take yourself to Havana to preach about fundamental rights, but not here in Europe, not here in Strasbourg! When I hear the rapporteur call for the freedom of expression, I wonder whether we have ended up in the world of Orwell, because it was his party, no less, which in France continually took the lead to scale back the freedom of opinion, via totalitarian acts such as the Gayssot Act. It was the party of this rapporteur which, some time ago, commissioned the bulldozing of a home for immigrants in Vitry-sur-Seine, so please let us remain serious. Communists must be the last people on earth to give us lessons in what Europe should look like based on the principles of a constitutional state."@en1
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