France has historically been one of the biggest armenian diaspora hosts in Europe (behind Russia obviously). There are very few armenians that have directly been born in Armenia (it has been almost a hundred years), but estimates of descendents from the nucleus of armenian political refugees run as high as half a million people . The political stance on the armenian genocide is largely due to this sizeable minority. Not to mention the law was considered unconstitutional in 2012 on a freedom of speech basis and therefore is not a law at all, and never was.
