Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time' ...

Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. But the nativist ideas that propelled his popularity remain ascendant in today's France and beyond.

Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony 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 ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen ... force in French politics by winning 10 seats in the European Parliament, including one for Le Pen. In an interview in 1987, Le Pen referred to the Nazi gas chambers as ...

Mr Le Pen's long political career was all about belligerence, anger, regret and scapegoats - but it would be wrong to write him off as merely an agitator.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was recently exempted from prosecution on health grounds in a high-profile trial that began in September, investigating his party's alleged embezzlement of European Parliament funds.

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. Enlisted in the uniform of the French army in Indochina and Algeria, tribune of the people in the National Assembly and the European Parliament, he always served ...

PARIS — Jean ... France.” Le Pen had recently been exempted from prosecution on health grounds from a high-profile trial over his party’s suspected embezzlement of European Parliament ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right French leader who espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric and was convicted of Holocaust denial, has died at 96. His death was announced on social media by Jordan ...

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen ... for helping seed “this anti-national spirit.” Le Pen lost his European Parliament seat in 2002 for a year for assaulting a Socialist politician during ...

said in a carefully-worded tribute that Jean-Marie Le Pen had "always served France". "As a soldier in the French army in Indochina and Algeria, as a tribune of the people in the National Assembly and ...

A polarising figure in French politics, his controversial statements led to multiple convictions and strained his political ...