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Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died Tuesday age 96, was the far-right bogeyman of French politics, infamously dismissing the Holocaust as a element of historical past and spending half a century whipping up anger over immigration.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died Tuesday age 96, was the far-right bogeyman of French politics, infamously dismissing the Holocaust as a element of historical past and spending half a century whipping up anger over immigration.
The co-founder of the far-right National Front — later renamed the National Rally (RN) — was ultimately booted out of the party by his daughter Marine for anti-Semitism.
A former paratrooper, Le Pen despatched shock waves by way of France in 2002 when he made it to the second spherical of the presidential election, which was gained by Jacques Chirac.
