For years, the far-right National Rally tried to distance itself from Mr. Le Pen’s racist and antisemitic remarks. But after ...
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Demonstrators were seen setting off fireworks and chanting slogans in Republic Square on Tuesday. Earlier that day, Le Pen, ...
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has paid tribute to her father Jean-Marie, the founder of the National Front party who ...
A Holocaust denier and unrepentant extremist on race and immigration, the far-right politician has died at 96.
The elder Le Pen is dead, but far-right populists across the world still echo his mix of violent rhetoric, brazen lies, and ...
He ran unsuccessfully for the French presidency five times, riding waves of discontent and xenophobia as the leader of the ...
The French Left-wing opposition has defended public displays of joy that followed the death of the far-Right veteran ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right party, the National Front, has died at the age of 96, according to ...
Controversy was Le Pen's constant companion: accusations of racism and antisemitism dogged the National Front from when he co ...
He co-founded what became France’s biggest opposition party, National Rally, rooted in deep anti-immigrant sentiment.
He was known for his fiery anti-immigrant rhetoric that earned him both staunch support and widespread condemnation.