THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: French Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his ministers stormed out of parliament in protest on Tuesday after an opposition deputy accused the government of flirting with Nazi ideology.
The accusation from opposition Socialist MP Serge Letchimy came in response to Interior Minister Claude Gueant's remark at the weekend that not all civilisations were equal.
Letchimy said in parliament: "You, Mr Gueant ... you bring us back day after day to those European ideologies which gave birth to the concentration camps".
He then asked: "Mr. Gueant, the Nazi regime, which was so worried about purity, was that a civilisation?"
That provoked uproar among government ministers and deputies from President Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing UMP party, who walked out en masse. The weekly question time was subsequently suspended. Read on and comment » | Source: AFP | Tuesday, February 07, 2012
