Pierre Bernard (politician)
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Pierre Bernard is a French politician, mayor of Montfeirmeil (various rights - divers droite) from March 1983 to June 2002 and counsellor in the canton de Montfermeil from 1992 to 1998. He replaced Eric Raoult
Éric Raoult
Éric Raoult is a French right-wing politician, currently affiliated to the Union for a Popular Movement.- Political career :...

, who had been nominated as minister, as a deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis
Seine-Saint-Denis
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 from 1995 to 1997.

Pierre Bernard is the founder of the far-right NGO France Debout, which he presided until 2004. He recently joined the Centre Charlier, headed by the former National Front MEP
Member of the European Parliament
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 Bernard Antony and president of AGRIF.

In 1988, Pierre Bernard prohibited the registering of the children of immigrants to kindergarten and to school meals, leading twice to a condemnation for racial discrimination in 1988 and 1991. He took as lawyer Jacques Trémollet de Villers
Jacques Trémollet de Villers
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, president of La Cité Catholique fundamentalist group. He was again condemned for hate speech in 2002 in virtue of the Gayssot Act, and relaxed in September 2005 for another racial discrimination charge. He was also scolded by the CNIL
CNIL
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 on charges of informatic racial profiling
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. Bernard assisted in 1996 to the funerals of the war criminal and Collaborationist Paul Touvier
Paul Touvier
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. He also regularly collaborates with Tribune nationaliste, the mouthpiece of the Neo-Nazi group Parti nationaliste français et européen (PNFE).

He was given the rank of knight of the Légion d'honneur
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in the beginning of 2006 on proposal of the current French President Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy
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