French politician suspended for Breivik support

27 Jul 2011, 12:51 pm   -   Source: AFP
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On his blog, Coutela presents Behring Breivik as an 'icon' and 'the main defender of the West'. (Twitter)

On his blog, Coutela presents Behring Breivik as an 'icon' and 'the main defender of the West'. (Twitter)

A member of France's far-right National Front (FN) party was suspended after penning a defence of Norway attacker Anders Behring Breivik on his blog, the party said.

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A member of France's far-right National Front (FN) party was suspended after penning a defence of Norway attacker Anders Behring Breivik on his blog, the party said Tuesday.
  
Jacques Coutela, who stood as an FN candidate in local elections in March, "was suspended today pending a party disciplinary committee", FN general secretary Steeve Briois said, describing Coutela as a low-level party member.
  
On his blog, where he rails against the rise of Islam in Europe, Coutela presents Behring Breivik -- the man who has claimed the twin attacks in Norway that killed 76 people -- as an "icon" and "the main defender of the West".
  
Coutela also compares Behring Breivik to Charles Martel, the seventh century military leader who halted Islamic expansion in western Europe.  
  
"The reason for the Norway terror attacks: fighting the Muslim invasion, that's what people don't want you to know", read the post, signed Jacques Coutela read.
  
Coutela took down the posting after the French Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples lodged a complaint against him for "inciting racial hatred", and on Tuesday denied having written it himself.
  
"I did not write those things, I found them on the Internet and published them on my blog to inform people", Coutela told AFP. He did not condone terrorism, he added, "wherever it comes from, even if it comes from my ideas".
  
Coutela was a candidate for the controversial far-right party led by Marine Le Pen in local elections in the Yonne department in central France in March.      Another FN member, Laurent Ozon, posted several unpopular tweets on microblogging site Twitter on Saturday apparently linking Friday's attacks to a rise in the number of immigrants in Norway.
  
Ozon told AFP he had not been suspended and that Le Pen had simply reminded him of the party line.
  
Though it openly opposes immigration, the FN, like other far right parties in Europe, has been quick to distance itself from Behring Breivik.  

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HE'S A MURDERER

GG5 - from East Fremantle, 10 months ago

For starters he is a murder, plain and simple - not a terrorist. All terrorists, by my definition, are murderers. He took the lives of 75+ people. The media, in all its forms, should STOP publishing photographs of this murderer and only make reference to him by his initials. He does NOT deserve the publicity he is getting, it only encourages others.

Peace keeper

Lucky - from Sydney, 10 months ago

Norway is the 4th largest small arm exporter in the world in addition to peace trading. They helped terrorist groups who killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, financially and politically. Now, when the fear stuck them, they should understand the fear and suffering of other people and STOP PROVIDING FoR TERRORISTS and fake peace trade. Every life is a life, either in Norway or anywhere.

Whats Terrorism then?

Jimbo - from Brisvegas, 10 months ago

Apart from the appalling acts committed by this guy, costing the lives of so many innocent victims, what is the strangest thing is why imediately after this it was called a terrorist attack and then when the perpetrator turned out to be a WHITE, right wing, christian fundamentalist it becomes the "twin attacks"?? Can white people not committ terrorism? Its just plain racist and shows the farcical "War on Terror" for what it really is...a "War on Arabic, Middle Eastern people people"

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