Jewish group: Try Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide [for questioning the Holocaust ...]

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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/684426.html

Jewish group: Try Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide
By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent

The European Jewish Congress (EJC) is set to file a complaint in the 
International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague against Iranian 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide, EJC 
president Pierre Besnainou told Haaretz.

Besnainou, who was in Israel last week, said the complaint was an 
independent initiative of the EJC, but noted that Foreign Minister 
Tzipi Livni had been informed of the intention to file the complaint. 
The initiative is expected to pass by a large majority in the general 
assembly of the EJC, which convenes Sunday in Vienna.

The EJC is also promoting a resolution in the European Parliament in 
Strasbourg to declare Ahmadinejad persona non grata in the 25 
European Union member-states. At the same time, the EJC also has the 
intention of signing prominent politicians, business people and 
intellectuals on a petition, to be published in European newspapers 
calling on the governments of Europe to prevent Ahmadinejad from 
visiting their countries.

Besnainou, a French businessman who was elected president of the EJC 
last June, told Haaretz, "Ahmadinejad must not set foot on the 
Continent where he claims the Holocaust did not take place", adding 
"I cannot imagine that the members of the EU parliament will refuse 
to adopt this resolution." Besnainou criticized the actions of the EU 
governments so far on the matter, arguing that they should have 
recalled their ambassadors for consultations but chose not to do so 
for "political reasons."

Experts in international law told Haaretz that a criminal complaint 
filed against Ahmadinejad had little chance of success in the ICC 
since Iran was not a signatory to its charter and therefore the court 
ostensibly does not have jurisdiction to try Ahmadinejad. However, 
the prominent French attorney Francis Piner, who is coordinating the 
case, told Haaretz "the significance of the fact that Iran is not a 
signatory to the court's charter is only that this country will not 
actively cooperate with it. It does not have to prevent the filing of 
the complaint, since otherwise there would have been no point in 
establishing such a court."
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