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"en.20051212.13.1-059"2
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".
Mr President, I use this time as rapporteur to report to the House the decision of the Committee on Legal Affairs. I make no secret that this was a difficult case for the committee. It was one where our colleague, Mr Gollnisch, came to us to ask us, as a Parliament, to give him the benefit of this Parliament’s immunity. I should also like to thank him for his courtesy and cooperation with the committee’s inquiries.
Mr Gollnisch has found himself prosecuted under French law – the law of his home Member State – for words he used at a press conference which, it is alleged, form something like Holocaust denial.
The committee considered this matter over several meetings and finally came to the decision, by a large and persuasive majority, that it would not be appropriate in this case to give him the benefit of this House’s immunity. The committee felt that the circumstances in which he had used the words complained of by the French prosecutor were not circumstances where it could be said fairly and squarely that he was only exercising his mandate as a Member of this House or carrying out his duties as a Member of this House. That being the case, it was not within the remit of the committee to enquire any further, and the committee made its decision on that basis. Therefore, we decline to give Mr Gollnisch the benefit of parliamentary immunity of this House, and that is the committee’s recommendation to the Presidency and to the House."@en1
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