Jean-Marie Le Pen's confession on torture during the Algerian War: 'I do it under the orders of my captain'
The co-founder of France's main far-right party, who died on January 7, never denied his racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic beliefs. He also admitted to carrying out torture in his role as a soldier in the Battle of Algiers.
Family to bury Jean-Marie Le Pen after death divided France
The co-founder of the main French postwar far-right movement Jean-Marie Le Pen is to be buried Saturday at a strictly family-only funeral after his death aged 96 exposed polarising attitudes towards a figure who for decades shook and shocked the country.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader who was convicted of Holocaust denial, dies at 96
Jean-Marie Le Pen espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric that landed him in legal trouble in France, where Holocaust denial is illegal.
Jean-Marie Le Pen 'Always Served France': Far-right Party Leader Bardella
Jordan Bardella, chief of France's far-right party National Rally (RN), said Tuesday that party co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died aged 96, had "always served France".
Jean-Marie Le Pen, Founder of the French Far-Right, Dies at 96
He was known for his fiery anti-immigrant rhetoric that earned him both staunch support and widespread condemnation.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right National Front party, dies at 96
Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of Marine Le Pen and the defining figure of France’s postwar far-right movement, has died at the age of 96, according to French network BFMTV.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, architect of France’s far right, dies at 96
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s National Front who ran for president five times and lived to see his anti-immigrant rhetoric go mainstream, has died. He was 96.
Jean-Marie Le Pen: French far-right leader dies aged 96
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right National Front party and an unrepentant extremist on race, immigration and multiculturalism, has died aged 96. Le Pen had been in a care facility for several weeks and died at midday on Tuesday “surrounded by his loved ones”, the family said in a statement.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen pays tribute to her politically polarizing father
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has paid tribute to her late father Jean-Marie, the founder of the National Front party, calling him a “warrior” in politics
Protesters respond to calls from far-left groups to celebrate death of Jean-Marie Le Pen in Paris
Demonstrators were seen setting off fireworks and chanting slogans in Republic Square on Tuesday. Earlier that day, Le Pen, the founder of the National Front party, died at the age of 96.
AFP on MSN3d
Key dates in the rise of the French far right
Here is a short history of the French far-right National Front, whose historic leader and co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen died on Tuesday aged 96.
Le Pen, a venomous brand
EDITORIAL. Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died on Tuesday, frequently leaned into anti-Semitism, revisionism, racism and complacency ...