Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time' ...

said in a carefully-worded tribute that Jean-Marie Le Pen had "always served France". "As a soldier in the French army in Indochina and Algeria, as a tribune of the people in the National Assembly and ...

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen ... for helping seed “this anti-national spirit.” Le Pen lost his European Parliament seat in 2002 for a year for assaulting a Socialist politician during ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen was recently exempted from prosecution on health grounds in a high-profile trial that began in September, investigating his party's alleged embezzlement of European Parliament funds.

Jean-Marie Le Pen ... force in French politics by winning 10 seats in the European Parliament, including one for Le Pen. In an interview in 1987, Le Pen referred to the Nazi gas chambers as ...

Mr Le Pen's long political career was all about belligerence, anger, regret and scapegoats - but it would be wrong to write him off as merely an agitator.

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. Enlisted in the uniform of the French army in Indochina and Algeria, tribune of the people in the National Assembly and the European Parliament, he always served ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen ... birthday as a member of the European parliament – a post he retained until 2019. Jordan Bardella, president of the RN party, said Le Pen “always served France, defending ...

Father and daughter went on trial last year on charges they and other senior NR party figures embezzled European Parliament funds with a fake jobs scheme. Jean-Marie Le Pen did not have to attend ...

Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. But the nativist ideas that propelled his popularity remain ascendant in today's France and beyond.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the historic leader of France's far right, died on Tuesday aged 96, his family told AFP. Le Pen, who had been in a care home for several weeks, died at midday (1100 GMT) Tuesday ...

McFadden Jean-Marie Le Pen ... who remained a longtime member of the European Parliament. (Mr. Le Pen had been charged as part of an investigation into accusations that his party embezzled ...