Gerard Araud: "Armenian genocide" is an opinion, not a fact

The Holocaust is a fact, the "Armenian genocide" is just an opinion, the French Ambassador to the US Gerard Araud said in an interview with US cable channel MSNBC. 

The diplomat recalled that in France there is no law criminalizing denial of the Armenian interpretation of the events of the First World War. The denial of the Holocaust as a fact is a criminal offense.

The European Court of Human Rights imposed a sentence with similar content on December 17th 2013 in Dogu Perincek's suit against Switzerland. The ECHR considered that the Armenian version of the events of 1915 was not only deprived of the verdict of an international tribunal as a condition for establishing the fact of genocide, but even a consensus in the academic environment, AzerTac reported. 

After the verdict the Swiss government filed an appeal under pressure from the Armenian lobby, which will be considered by the supreme authority of the ECHR on January 28 this year.