The death of French fascist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was accompanied by cloying tributes from fascists, conservatives and ...
Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, ...
After the Axis powers’ defeat in World War II, many former Nazis and Vichyites recycled themselves as anti-communists.
PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party and a polarizing figure in French politics, is ...
Ironically, his demise might clear the stage for his daughter, Marine Le Pen, to ascend to the French presidency, having supposedly cleansed the party he created — and from which she expelled him in ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric that landed him in legal trouble in France, where Holocaust denial is illegal.
Earlier that day, Le Pen, the founder of the National Front party, died at the age of 96. French far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen is kissed by her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, in Lyon, ...
Marine Le Pen is widely considered as one of ... spent his life promoting the far right through “racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and Holocaust denial.” The group also paid tribute in a ...
including Marine, the youngest, was a polarizing figure, convicted multiple times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. “Many people he loved are waiting for him up there. Many ...
For years, the far-right National Rally tried to distance itself from Mr. Le Pen’s racist and antisemitic remarks. But after ...
The elder Le Pen is dead, but far-right populists across the world still echo his mix of violent rhetoric, brazen lies, and outreach to mainstream conservatives.