France's far-right Le Pen splits publicly with father in political family feud

[Preacher]

France s far-right Le Pen splits publicly with father in political family feud News DW.DE 08.04.2015

Just another Kosher Konservative *****. Her father is right... hope her niece can take the party from her and get it back on course.

 

[Political Junky]

France s Front National plunged into family feud over Holocaust remarks World news The Guardian
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The gruff ex-paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen, who co-founded the Front National in 1972, led it to become the most successful far-right, xenophobic party in western Europe.
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First, Jean-Marie Le Pen used a television interview to defend his view, which he first stated in 1987, that gas chambers used to kill Jews in the Holocaust were “merely a detail in the history” of the second world war – a remark for which he had already been convicted of inciting racial hatred and fined.

He has several convictions for hate speech, including a conviction for contesting crimes against humanity after saying the Nazi occupation of France was not “particularly inhumane”.

But last week he told a TV interviewer he had no regrets over calling the Holocaust a mere detail of history, saying he stood by that view “because it’s the truth”. The French state prosecutor’s office immediately opened a fresh judicial investigation for hate-speech.
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He defended Philippe Pétain, the leader of France’s Nazi collaborationist Vichy regime in the 1940s, who was convicted of treason after the war. He told the magazine: “I have never considered Marshal Pétain a traitor. He was treated too severely after the liberation.”

 

[HenryBHough]

LePen is in ascendancy because the French, dumb as they are, quickly recognized that Hollande's brand of socialism was destroying their lives. First time I've even considered that the French might actually be a little more intelligent than Americans.

Frightening prospect!

 

[there4eyeM]

France is very similar to the US. The people are just a little more intellectual.