Nazi stag night in French Alps lands Briton with €1,500 fine
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Nazi stag night in French Alps lands Briton with €1,500 fine
Nazi stag night in French Alps lands Briton with €1,500 fine
Mark Fournier claimed outfit worn during dinner at ski resort of Val Thorens was hired for him by Tory MP Aidan Burley
A Briton who wore a Nazi uniform as fancy dress during a stag night at a ski resort in France has been fined €1,500 by a court in the French Alps.
The court also ordered Mark Fournier to pay an additional €1,000 (£822) in damages and interest to an organisation representing families of those who disappeared from France or were deported to the death camps in the second world war.
Fournier, 33, wore the Nazi uniform and insignia – outlawed in France – at a dinner in the ski resort of Val Thorens during December 2011, shortly before he was due to be married.
He claimed the outfit was hired for him by the Tory MP Aidan Burley, the court in Albertville had heard.
Fournier was charged with "wearing a uniform or insignia of an organisation guilty of crime against humanity" and given the maximum fine possible under French law.
He originally faced more serious charges of denial of war crimes, or crimes against humanity and incitement to racial hatred.
He was shown by France TV wearing an SS cap and making a Nazi salute.
The public prosecutor said Burley, 34, at the time parliamentary private secretary to Britain's transport minister, had not been charged because he could not be held responsible under French law.
Michel Rouband, Fournier's lawyer, told the court during the first hearing on 18 December: "My client's behaviour should not be seen as an ideological statement but was organised by his best man, the MP friend, and took part in the context of a boozy stag night."
Rouband said Prince Harry had worn a Nazi uniform in 2005. "English law does not consider the wearing of a Nazi uniform to be, in itself, a crime. We can see that from the conduct of Prince Harry."," he told French journalists.
However, the lawyer for the French Association of Deported, Detained and Families of the Disappeared, a civil party to the legal action, said: "We cannot qualify this sort of act as a schoolboy joke."
Burley, 34, an Oxford graduate who was being groomed for rapid promotion by David Cameron, was sacked as a ministerial aide after the stag-night scandal broke.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/21/nazi-stag-night-french-alps-briton-fined
What an idiot!
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Re: Nazi stag night in French Alps lands Briton with €1,500 fine
He claimed the outfit was hired for him by the Tory MP Aidan Burley, the court in Albertville had heard.
Bit of an embarrassment there for the Tories!
Bit of an embarrassment there for the Tories!
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Who should have damn well known better!
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Re: Nazi stag night in French Alps lands Briton with €1,500 fine
Sassy wrote:Who should have damn well known better!
.....Wonder if Cameron will have anything to say about this, disgraceful if true.
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Re: Nazi stag night in French Alps lands Briton with €1,500 fine
Conservative MP Aidan Burley was dismissed as parliamentary private secretary to Britain's transport minister after newspapers published pictures of the drunken bash at a posh French ski resort and reported that guests had been toasting the memory of Nazi leaders.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11190173
Re: Nazi stag night in French Alps lands Briton with €1,500 fine
Burley will probably pay the fine and claim it back somewhere hidden in his expenses.
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