VIDEO: French Academician Fired over 9/11

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The French defence minister fired professor Aymeric Chauprade for his belief in the ‘conspiracy theory’ of events of 9/11.

Aymeric Chauprade, a professor at the French military university, was fired for his views regarding the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre. The French defence minister, Herve Morin, demanded himself that the geopolitics professor be fired from the Collège Interarmées de Défense.

The defence minister accused Aymeric Chauprade of making untruthful claims in his book that the

Fired for ‘different opinion’

U.S. television host Rosie O’Donnell got fired in 2007 allegedly for talking to her studio audience about conspiracy theories on the attack on the WTC. French actress and Oscar winner Marion Cotillard said she thought America was behind the attack on the WTC. Her statement gave rise to harsh reactions and threats that she would never act in Hollywood again. She backed down and apologised, so the dust settled.

attack on the WTC was part of an American-Israeli conspiracy to conquer the world.

The professor replied to the accusations that he presented the theory as a possibility, but that he never claimed it to be his stance.

- I wanted to show the opposition between two ways of seeing the world, aware that half of humanity thinks the 9/11 attacks were the result of a conspiracy" and not the work of al-Qaeda Islamists - Aymeric Chauprade explained.

Reporter Jean-Dominique Merchetea, who published the story first, thinks the French defence ministry reacted too aggressively, although what the professor advocated was wrong.

After being fired on February 5, the 40-year-old professor hired a lawyer who will help him, as he put it, fight for his dignity.

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