Fascists.

French launch criminal investigation into Tory MP Aidan Burley over Nazi-themed stag night - Telegraph

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Burley, 32, and members of his party face prison and fines after examining magistrates sitting in Albertville received a complaint of ‘inciting racial hatred and glorifying crimes against humanity’. They could face imprisonment of up to six months if convicted. It relates to a stag night held in a restaurant and bar in nearby Val Thorens on December 3 during which Mr Burley, MP for Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, and his friends were caught on video. Accountant Mark Fournier, a 34-year-old Oxford graduate, wore a replica uniform of the SS – the infamous Schutz-Staffel who were responsible for millions of murders during World War II, many related to the Holocaust. One guest, sitting beside the MP in a restaurant, was filmed raising a toast to ‘the ideology and thought process of the Third Reich.’ Later, after moving on to a British-themed pub, some of the group chanted: ‘Mein Fuhrer! Mein Fuhrer! Mein Fuhrer!’, ‘Himmler! Himmler! Himmler!’ and ‘Eichmann! Eichmann! Eichmann!’ Heinrich Himmler founded the SS, while he and Adolf Eichmann were directly responsible for the Holocaust, in which millions of Jews died. A spokesman for Albertville prosecutors said a preliminary enquiry had been opened, and that those involved in the outrage could receive up to six months in prison and large fines if convicted. Julien Andrez, counsel for La Fondue restaurant, where the stag night started, said they had filed a criminal complaint, as had Hamdy Boussouiba, director of French pressure group SOS Racism. Calling for Mr Burley to be fired, Mr Boussoiba said: ‘The hotel management should have made a complaint straight away, but better late than never.’ Andrew Plaisance, the Mayor of Saint-Martin de Belleville, which covers Val Thorens, said he hoped a prosecution would send out the message that acts which glorified Nazism were ‘unspeakable’ and should be ‘strongly condemned without reservation.’ Mr Burley, who has been sacked from his post as a parliamentary private secretary but remains an MP, this week apologised for his ‘crass and insensitive’ behaviour and the ‘terrible offence’ he caused. He strenuously denied that he had taken part in toasts to the Third Reich, and distanced himself from the ‘inexcusable behaviour’ of other guests at the party. But Mr Burley would not directly address claims that he hired the SS uniform for the stag night. The Conservative Party said it was launching a fuller investigation into Mr Burley’s behaviour, with Prime Minister David Cameron being kept aware of all developments. Under the French penal code, it is a crime, unless required for a film, a play or a historical exhibition, to exhibit in public a uniform, insignia or emblem reminiscent of those which were worn by the Nazis. Earlier this year British fashion designer John Galliano was found guilty of making anti-Semitic remarks by a Paris court and was sentenced to pay a total of 2400 pounds in suspended fines. Galliano had been caught on video insulting people in a bar in the French capital.

I love the fact that the restaurant was totally fine with this while it was going on, and then started acting the injured innocent afterwards.

So no historical parallels there, then.

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