LIBEL SUIT AGAINST FRENCH DEPUTY
(10 a.m.) PARIS, Mar. 9. The French National Assembly, for the second time in a week, lifted the Parliamentary immunity of a Communist Deputy to permit the civil libel laws to be enforced, reports the British United Press.
The Assembly, acting on a Popular Republican Government motion, today lifted the Parliamentary immunity of M. Roger Roucaute, a Communist Deputy of Ardeche. The motion said that M. Roucaute write libellous articles about General Marie Emile Bethouard, the French Commander-in-Chief in Austria, his wife and sons.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22891, 10 March 1949, Page 5
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