Action demanded against French National Front leader

The president of the University of Lyon III, Guy Lavorel, has asked the French Education Minister to sack Bruno Gollnisch, the number two in command of the right-wing National Front party, from his post as lecturer for Japanese and Law at Lyon III. Gollnisch on Monday said in a press conference that historians had every right to discuss the "concentration drama" and made other statements perceived as anti-Semitic and revisionist. Meanwhile, the chairman of the " League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism", Patrick Gaubert, has written a letter to president of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell, suggesting that Gollnisch, a member of the European assembly, be reprimanded for his "words of denial" (of the Shoah).