Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died last week at the age of 96.The “mass for the repose of the soul” at Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce church took place under tight security,

Jean-Marie Le Pen espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric that landed him in legal trouble in France, where Holocaust denial is illegal.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's National Front, has passed away at 96. Known for his polarizing politics, he was convicted multiple times for promoting racism and antisemitism. Thousands in France marked his death with celebrations,

She sought to make the party more mainstream, trying to remove the stigma of racism and antisemitism that clung to the party under her father. Jean-Marie Le Pen was expelled from the National ...

She sought to moderate the image of the party, renamed National Rally, and denounced her father’s antisemitism. Jean-Marie Le Pen was ejected from the party he founded in 2015 following the oven ...

Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, a French comedian repeatedly convicted of inciting antisemitism or racial ... In an interview in 1987, Jean-Marie Le Pen referred to the Nazi gas chambers as a ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far ... trying to remove the stigma of racism and antisemitism that clung to the party under her father. Marine Le Pen twice ran for president ...

Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, a French comedian repeatedly convicted of inciting antisemitism or racial ... In an interview in 1987, Jean-Marie Le Pen referred to the Nazi gas chambers as a ...

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right ... denied the Holocaust and was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence.

Retrospectives on Jean-Marie Le Pen highlight his most infamous racist and antisemitic statements but almost uniformly overlook a key dimension of his politics: anti-communism. Yet this has long been a decisive focus for the far right,

Le Pen, the founder of France's notoriously antisemitic and xenophobic National Front party, has died at the age of 96.

For years, the far-right National Rally tried to distance itself from Mr. Le Pen’s racist and antisemitic remarks. But after his death Tuesday, it hailed him as a visionary.