One of the loudest critics of the French law, which first came before parliament in 2006, was Hrant Dink, an Armenian newspaper owner who was murdered in Istanbul by an ultranationalist youth in 2007.
This is because the largest Serbian opposition group, the ultranationalist Radical Party, has imploded thanks to an internal war between the devotees of Vojislav Seselj, currently standing trial for war crimes at the United Nations' tribunal in The Hague, and the allies of the more pragmatic Tomislav Nikolic, who led the party within Serbia.