Number of French deputies increased Wednesday to appeal a bill adopted on Monday to make it a crime to deny Armenian allegations on the Ottoman era incidents of 1915.
Signatures of a total of 60 MPs or of 60 senators are needed to appeal a legislation to the Constitutional Court in France. The French president can also appeal a legislation to the court.
UMP member and Chairman of the Turkish-French Parliamentary Group Michel Diefenbacher said the number of MPs of the lower house of the French parliament reached 35 to appeal the denial bill to the high court.
"France's role is to bring the two nations closer not the opposite," Diefenbacher said.
The bill penalizes denial of the Armenian allegations with a prison term of one year and a fine of 45 thousand euros.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to approve the legislations within two weeks.
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