France's Marine Le Pen to go on trial for tweets showing IS atrocities

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been ordered to stand trial over three Twitter posts from 2015 showing Islamic State atrocities, a judicial source tells AFP.

A judge in Nanterre, just west of Paris, issued the ruling after Le Pen was charged last year with circulating “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity” and that can be viewed by a minor.

French far-right Rassemblement National (RN) President and member of Parliament Marine Le Pen delivers a speech after the announcement of initial results during an RN election-night event for European parliamentary elections on May 26, 2019, at La Palmeraie venue in Paris. (Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

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France’s Marine Le Pen to go on trial for tweets showing IS atrocities

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