French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been booed and insulted at a march to honor an 85-year-old woman who escaped the Nazis 76 years ago yet was stabbed to death in her Paris apartment.
Cries of “Go home!” and “Nazi! Nazi!” rang out at march in Paris, which drew thousands. Le Pen had insisted on attending the march despite objections by France’s largest Jewish group. She was protected by a phalanx of supporters and bodyguards.
The son of Mireille Knoll, the slain woman, has countered that “everyone, without exception” was welcome at the march.
Le Pen, National Front president, has broken ties with her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, the party founder who’s been convicted of anti-Semitism and racism.
Knoll’s death has taken on national importance, reminding France of both historic anti-Semitism and its resurgence in recent years.
— Agencies
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