A French court upholds the exclusion of Jean-Marie Le Pen from the far-right National Front (FN) by his daughter Marine for repeated inflammatory remarks about the Holocaust.
Le Pen was booted out of the party he founded last year for reiterating his view that the Nazi gas chambers were a mere “detail” of history and defending France’s collaborationist wartime Vichy regime.
FN leader Marine Le Pen, who has her eye on the French presidency in next year’s elections, disavowed her 88-year-old father, accusing him of “political suicide.”
Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right National Front (FN) party, at the party’s headquarters on August 20, 2015 (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP)
The court in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre upheld the FN’s decision to strip him of his membership. But in a small victory for the elder Le Pen it ruled he should be allowed to remain as party honorary president. As such, the party is required to invite him to all leadership meetings, failing which it faces a fine, the judges ruled.
The FN was also ordered to pay the party’s founder 15,000 euros ($16,000) in damages for preventing him from carrying out his functions of honorary president over the past year.
— AFP
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