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Jean-Claude Gayssot
Jean-Claude Gayssot (born 6 September 1944, in Béziers, Hérault) is a French politician. A member of the French Communist Party (PCF), he was Minister of Transportation in the government of Lionel Jospin of the Socialist Party from 1997 to 2002. He gave his name to the 1990 "Gayssot Act" repressing Holocaust denial and speech in favor of racial discrimination. He is also responsible for the Act on housing projects (loi SRU), which imposes a 20% housing projects
Gayssot Act
The Gayssot Act or Gayssot Law (), enacted on 13 July 1990, makes it an offense in France to question the existence or size of the category of crimes against humanity as defined in the London Charter of 1945, on the basis of which Nazi leaders were convicted by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1945-46 (art.9). 
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Communist deputy Jean-Claude Gayssot proposed the law. It is one of several European laws prohibiting Holocaust denial. Its first article states that