Le Pen: France not responsible for deporting Jews to Nazi death camps

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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has denied France was responsible for rounding up more than 13,000 Jews at a Paris cycle track to be sent to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.

France’s responsibility for the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, the Nazi-directed mass arrest of Jews in Paris by French police, has been admitted by both former President Jacques Chirac and current leader Francois Hollande, after decades of the state denying it was at fault.

Ms Le Pen told French broadcaster LCI on Sunday: “I don't think France is responsible for the Vel d'Hiv.”

She added: “I think that generally speaking if there are people responsible, it's those who were in power at the time. It's not France.”

The leader of the Front National said children in France had been taught “reasons to criticise [the country], and to only see, perhaps, the darkest aspects of our history". She continued: “So, I want them to be proud of being French again.”

The Vel' d'Hiv Round-up refers to the mass arrest of Jews in Paris by the French police on 16 and 17 July 1942. During the crackdown – one of several aimed at eradicating the Jewish population in France – people were temporarily confined in the velodrome before being deported to concentration camps, where the vast majority of them were murdered.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/marine-le-pen-france-jews-nazis-not-responsible-second-world-war-concentration-camps-death-francois-a7675791.html

 

[Morphine Prince 109,682]

Mama Le Pen is in trouble now. 

Or maybe her Nazi demographic will love her more. 

[JustinTrudeau 2,419]

Oh boy this is going to end nicely 

[Miley 5,006]

She's like Trump x 100. 

[The Fame Joanne 5,985]

Sure Joanne 

Looks like far right people can't deal with their countries' mistakes (*cough* Erdogan and his supporters being outraged over the term genocide for killing of 1M Armenians in Turkey *cough*). Seems like they are special snowflakes when it comes to that 

[Florian 20,017]

48 minutes ago, Miley said:

She's like Trump x 100. 

She's Trump with a brain, and that's the scariest thing

[DeleteMyAccount 11,881]

1 minute ago, Florian said:

She's Trump with a brain, and that's the scariest thing

Clearly not with the statement she just made.