French prosecutors have launched a criminal inquiry into a Conservative MP and 12 of his friends who attended a Nazi-themed stag night at an Alpine ski resort. Aidan Burley, 32, and members of his party face prison and fines after examining magistrates sitting in Albertville received a complaint of 'inciting racial hatred and glorifying crimes against humanity'.
It relates to a stag night held in a restaurant and bar in nearby Val Thorens on December 3 during which Mr Burley, MP for Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, and his friends were caught on video.
Accountant Mark Fournier, a 34-year-old Oxford graduate, wore a replica uniform of the SS - the infamous Schutz-Staffel who were responsible for millions of murders during World War II, many related to the Holocaust.
One guest, sitting beside the MP in a restaurant, was filmed raising a toast to 'the ideology and thought process of the Third Reich'. Read More
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