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Europe’s Crooked Commisioner Threatens Bishop

From JailingOpinions.com

Jacques Barrot, the EU Justice Commissioner, has warned Bishop Richard Williamson that he faces prosecution in many European countries if he repeats his controversial opinions about the alleged Holocaust of European Jews.

Speaking at a meeting of European justice ministers in Brussels last week, M. Barrot said:

“If Bishop Williamson were to repeat his negationist remarks in France, he could be punished under French law.”

But just who is Jacques Barrot to be lecturing anyone on history, legality, morality or anything else?

Jacques Barrot was himself convicted by the French courts in 2000 and received an eight-month suspended prison sentence for his involvement in the embezzlement of £2 million in state funds diverted to his political party. The case was part of a major scandal in French politics, but like several others involved M. Barrot escaped scot free under a presidential pardon.

Following this pardon French law – which bars discussion of historical opinions by Bishop Williamson, Robert Faurisson and others – also bars any public reference to M. Barrot’s conviction and suspended prison sentence. If I were a French journalist it would be illegal for me to write this article, even though every word of it is true!
 

What £2 million? European Justice Commission Jacques Barrot protests his innocence.

Secured by this blanket of censorship, M. Barrot failed to reveal his conviction when he was appointed to the European Commission in 2004. British MEP Nigel Farage raised the issue in the European Parliament and called for M. Barrot’s resignation – a call endorsed by Graham Watson, leader of the British Liberal Democrat group in the Parliament. Mr Watson accused M. Barrot of “an unacceptable abuse of trust”, adding that the commissioner was “seriously compromised by the revelation of his conviction and suspended jail sentence for conduct that is illegal in many EU member states”. Martin Schulz, leader of the Socialist group in the Parliament, also expressed serious concerns.

Needless to say M. Barrot, a close political ally of Jacques Chirac, the French President who pardoned him, never had to explain or apologize, let alone resign. With inimitable Eurocratic irony he was appointed Justice Commissioner last year.
 

Barrot was pardoned by his close political ally, former French President
Jacques Chirac, seen here (centre) with Joseph Sitruk, Chief Rabbi of France (left)
and Moshe Katsav, President of Israel (right).

 
Article Source: JailingOpinions.com