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Sunday, April 30, 2017
Le Pen lays wreath at Marseille Holocaust memorial
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFar-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen discreetly lays a wreath at a Holocaust memorial in the French city of Marseille.
A tweet from a National Front party official shows Le Pen marking the National Day of Remembrance for victims of deportation by the Nazis.
According to AFP, Le Pen did not invite the press to event.
À Marseille, @MLP_officiel et @Stephane_Ravier déposent une gerbe pour la journée nationale du souvenir des victimes de la déportation pic.twitter.com/IjOo5D8xwg
— Kévin Pfeffer (@K_Pfeffer) April 30, 2017
The monument commemorates the rounding up of 30 Jewish children and their mothers by the Gestapo on October 20, 1943 in Marseilles.
The wreath-laying ceremony comes a few hours after her rival Emmanuel Macron lays a wreath at a Holocaust memorial in Paris.
The Times of Israel Community.