Marine Le Pen to sue alleged neo-Nazis who appeared on video together with her father earlier than trial

The National Front’s successor, the National Rally, stated in an announcement obtained by POLITICO that it might file a proper criticism in opposition to Match Retour’s members for benefiting from Jean-Marie Le Pen’s diminishing well being.

Jean-Marie Le Pen had been repeatedly convicted of inciting racial hatred and is infamous in France for downplaying the Holocaust. Marine Le Pen, who took the reins from her father in 2011, expelled him from the party 4 years later over his anti-Semitic feedback.

Both father and daughter are among the many 27 people related to the National Rally that went on trial on Monday on accusations that they employed a scheme to award contracts for parliamentary assistants to people who principally labored on party operations quite than European Union affairs in violation of EU guidelines. 

Marine Le Pen has denied wrongdoing. Jean-Marie Le Pen will likely be absent from the trial and has been positioned underneath authorized safety resulting from his declining well being.

Victor Goury-Laffont contributed to this report.