Jean-Marie Le Pen, the controversial founder of France's far-right National Front, known for his fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism, has died at the age of 96. Le Pen's divisive legacy shaped decades of French political history and influenced the trajectory of the far right.
PARIS — Jean-Marie Le Pen , the founder of France ’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, has died. He was 96.
The post appeared to blur the distance the rebranded party had sought to establish between its firebrand founder and its more polished, modern direction under Marine Le Pen. French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, center, flanked by his daughter Marine Le Pen, and Bruno Gollnisch, arrive for a wreath-laying ceremony at the statue of Joan of Arc, within the party's traditional May Day march on May 1, 2010, in Paris.A fixture for decades in French politics, the fiery Jean-Marie Le Pen was a wily political strategist and gifted orator who used his charisma to captivate crowds with his anti-immigration message.
In election after election, he proved the spoiler, forcing rivals to scramble to counter him, and sometimes stoop to harvest far-right votes. Le Pen was notably convicted in 1990 for a radio remark made three years earlier in which he referred to the Nazi gas chambers as a “detail in World War II history.” In 2015, he repeated the remark, saying he “did not at all” regret it, triggering the ire of his daughter — by then the party leader — and a new conviction in 2016.
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