Tag Archives: Jean-Marie Le Pen

The Associated Press reports: France’s far-right National Front definitively severed its ties to firebrand founder Jean-Marie Le Pen on Sunday, part of a makeover designed to revive the nationalist party’s fortunes after the ousted founder’s daughter failed to win the presidency last year. Despite her troubles, Marine Le Pen was re-elected to a new term as party president at a …

NBC News reports: A remembrance ceremony for the policeman killed last week by an attacker in Paris “exalted” the concept of gay marriage, far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s father said on Friday, courting controversy for his daughter’s campaign. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the National Front (FN) party founder from whom his daughter has sought to distance herself because of his …

Marion Marechal-Le Pen today declared that she has been hired by Breitbart CEO and Trump campaign chief Steve Bannon as part of the site’s previously announced expansion into France and Germany. Marion is the granddaughter of the Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s neo-Nazi National Front Party, and the niece of Marine Le Pen, whose chance of ascending to France’s …

This is actually great news for France. Via Reuters: French far-right veteran Jean-Marie Le Pen said on Thursday his newly-formed party would field candidates in next year’s parliamentary elections, in a direct challenge to his daughter who excluded him from the National Front (FN) party he founded. He said he would not hesitate to field candidates in constituencies where the …

Louis Aliot, vice president of France’s neo-Nazi National Front, issued a tweet this weekend which denounced the Paris Pride Parade as “exhibitionist” and “militant.” Aliot is the domestic partner of National Front president and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who is the daughter of party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has been convicted multiple times of inciting racial hatred and …

French neo-Nazi National Front founder and five-time presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen today endorsed Donald Trump with a tweet that translates as, “If I were American, I would vote for Donald Trump. May God protect him!” Le Pen has been convicted multiple times for inciting racial hatred and for denying the Holocaust. In the late 80s he called for forcibly …

National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen has again stirred national outrage across France after joking that his critics, who include Madonna, should be sent to the gas chambers. The remark was contained in a video clip posted on the FN website and since removed. In the video, Le Pen railed against a number of critics including pop star Madonna and …

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s neo-Nazi National Front, says the solution to Europe’s immigration “problem” could be ebola. At a cocktail party before an election rally in Marseille on Tuesday evening, days before the European elections in which the National Front is leading the polls in France, Le Pen spoke of the “demographic explosion” in the world. “Monseigneur …