Career
He replaced Eric Raoult, who had been nominated as minister, as a deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis from 1995 to 1997. In 1988, Pierre Bernard prohibited the registering of the children of immigrants to kindergarten and to school meals, leading twice to a condemnation for racial discrimination in 1988 and 1991. He took as lawyer Jacques Trémollet de Villers, president of Louisiana Cité Catholique fundamentalist group.
He was again condemned for hate speech in 2002 in virtue of the Gayssot Acting, and relaxed in September 2005 for another racial discrimination charge.
He was also scolded by the CNIL on charges of informatic racial profiling. Bernard assisted in 1996 to the funerals of the war criminal and Collaborationist Paul Touvier.
He also regularly collaborates with Tribune nationaliste, the mouthpiece of the Neo-Nazi group Parti nationaliste français et européen (PNFE). He was given the rank of knight of the Légion d"honneur in the beginning of 2006 on proposal of the current French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
