FRANCE'S interior minister has called for a lawmaker to be "severely punished" after a journalist recorded him allegedly saying that Hitler may not have killed enough Roma.
Gilles Bourdouleix, a lawmaker and mayor of the western town of Cholet, reportedly muttered the words on Sunday as he confronted members of the travelling community who had illegally set up camp, according to a recording posted on the site of regional daily Courrier de l'Ouest.
"Maybe Hitler did not kill enough," Bourdouleix is heard saying after the Roma had reportedly given him the Nazi salute.
Bourdouleix, who is a member of the lower house National Assembly with the centrist UDI party, said his comments were taken out of context and alleged the recording was tampered with.
Confrontations between French authorities and Roma - nomadic people widely known as gypsies who were killed in their hundreds of thousands by the Nazis - erupt frequently.
Bourdouleix's comments have caused an uproar. Interior Minister Manuel Valls described them on Tuesday as "unacceptable" and called for the lawmaker to be "very severely punished by law".
"These comments are a defence of crimes committed in the Second World War, a defence of Nazism and coming from a mayor, from a member of parliament, it's completely intolerable," he said on TV channel i-TELE.
The case has already been referred to public prosecutors who will examine whether his comments constitute a "defence of crimes against humanity", said authorities in Maine-et-Loire, the department where Cholet is located.
He faces up to five years in prison and a 45,000 euro ($A64,000) fine if convicted on the charge.
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