Jean-Marie Le Pen at a rally, February 1973. AFP Since Jean-Marie Le Pen's death on January 7, many people have paid tribute to him. François Bayrou, the French prime minister, called him "a fighter.
RFI correspondent Fayçal Metaoui cites the eyewitness accounts of Mohamed and Dahmane, two Algerian ... also evokes Le Pen's presence in Algeria's war years. "Jean-Marie Le Pen was a person ...
The tomb housing the remains of Jean-Marie Le Pen has been vandalized less than three weeks after the polarizing French ...
The Algerian War, which signaled the ultimate end to ... she had learned to moderate what she was willing to say out loud. In 1987, Jean-Marie Le Pen casually remarked that Hitler’s gas chambers ...
The death of French fascist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was accompanied by cloying tributes from fascists, conservatives and ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen ... Algeria during its war for independence. Decades later, in 2002, the newspaper Le Monde published allegations that he had tortured supporters of the Algerian insurgency ...
McFadden Jean ... Le Pen fought against the Communist-dominated Viet Minh. Later, as an intelligence officer in Algeria during its war of independence, he was accused of torturing members of the ...
For half a century, Jean-Marie Le Pen ... with the Nazis during the second world war. But in the years that preceded his death, Le Pen’s nationalist, anti-immigration ideology found an ...
PARIS — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right ... including his ties to the Algerian war, describing him as a “tribune of the people” who “always served France” and ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen, Founder of France's Post-War Far Right, Dies Aged 96 By Elizabeth Pineau and Marine Strauss PARIS(Reuters) -Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front ...
He was known for his fiery anti-immigrant rhetoric that earned him both staunch support and widespread condemnation.