1. Bruno Gollnisch was a member of the European Parliament and was chairman of the European Parliamentary group 'Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty' in 2007, which was dissolved in November 2007 following the defection of the Greater Romania Party.
20 Facts About Bruno Gollnisch
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Bruno Gollnisch was a councillor of the Rhone-Alpes region of France.
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Bruno Gollnisch studied law, political science and far-eastern languages with the view to becoming a diplomat.
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Bruno Gollnisch met Jean-Marie Le Pen while studying at Nanterre university.
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Bruno Gollnisch became a reserve officer in the French Navy.
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Bruno Gollnisch did a masters in public law in 1973.
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Bruno Gollnisch is a specialist in the law of Eastern Asian countries.
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Bruno Gollnisch became associate professor of Law at Metz university.
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Bruno Gollnisch has collaborated with the white nationalist American Renaissance magazine.
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Bruno Gollnisch, who is part of the Catholic faction within the National Front, along with Bernard Antony, joined the "TSM" faction inside the FN during the 1990s crisis, along with Marine Le Pen, Roger Holeindre, Jean-Claude Martinez, Samuel Marechal and Martine Lehideux.
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Bruno Gollnisch served as the President of the Alliance of European National Movements from 2010 until 2013, when his party left the AENM to join the more moderate European Alliance for Freedom and so unify the National Front under the EAF banner.
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Bruno Gollnisch was an unsuccessful candidate for the leadership of the National Front in 2011 when the party's founding leader Jean Marie Le Pen retired.
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Bruno Gollnisch was defeated by Marine Le Pen, Jean Marie's daughter.
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Bruno Gollnisch was condemned in January 2007 to a three-month prison sentence on probation and ordered to pay costs of 55,000 Euros by the Lyon tribunal correctionnel on a charge of "an offence of verbal contestation of the existence of crimes against humanity, " which is punished in France by virtue of the 1990 Gayssot Act.
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Bruno Gollnisch had committed the verbal contestation on 11 October 2004, by declaring:.
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In reaction to a report denouncing the complacent attitude of the University Lyon III with respect to the far right, Bruno Gollnisch reiterated his declarations shortly after its publication.
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Bruno Gollnisch was finally found not guilty by the Cour de cassation on 24 June 2009.
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On 23 October 2012, Bruno Gollnisch visited Hungary to deliver a speech in honour of Jobbik, a party described as "anti-Semitic" by the New York Times and as "extremist" by Marine Le Pen.
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Bruno Gollnisch suggested that the evicted Roma should be accommodated in St Peter's Square, Rome, and that the Vatican should then re-state its position.
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Bruno Gollnisch married Setsuko Takeuchi, from Japan, in 1981 and they have three children.