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Fast Forward Older Le Pen Rejects Call To Quit Over ‘Gas Chamber’ Family Feud
(Reuters) — French National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen rejected on Friday a call from his daughter, the party’s leader, to leave politics over comments he made that she fears will hurt her push to widen the right-wing party’s appeal. Marine Le Pen said on Thursday she would seek disciplinary action against her father after…
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Fast Forward Marine Le Pen Accuses Dad of ‘Political Suicide’ in Feud Over ‘Gas Chamber’ Quip
A bitter family feud between National Front leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie deepened on Wednesday as she accused the 86-year-old founder of the far-right party of sabotaging its efforts to move into the political mainstream. Jean-Marie Le Pen, who last week defended a past comment that Nazi gas chambers were a “detail…
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Fast Forward Jean-Marie Le Pen Slams ‘Betrayal’ by Daughter Over Gas Chamber Quip
French National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen accused his successor and daughter Marine of betrayal over her criticism of comments for which he was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and insisted he would run in regional elections this year. His remarks, made in an interview with a far-right newspaper, could embarrass Marine le Pen as…
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Fast Forward Toulouse Bans Boycott Israel ‘Apartheid’ Event
The City of Toulouse banned an event organized by far-left activists promoting a boycott of Israel. The canceled event was a lecture by Farid Esack, a South African university lecturer and activist, titled “Apartheid, from South Africa to Israel.” He was scheduled to speak at a municipal event hall on March 31 at an address…
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Fast Forward France’s Marine Le Pen Slams Dad for Calling Gas Chambers ‘Detail’
(Reuters) — Tensions between French National Front leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie worsened on Thursday as the 86-year-old founder of the far-right party defended having described Nazi gas chambers as a “detail of history.” Since taking over from her father in 2011, Marine Le Pen has tried to rid the anti-immigrant party…
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Opinion Can You Vote in France While Wearing a Kippah?
Can you vote in France while wearing a kippah? That was the debate that erupted among officials at the polling station on Sunday when Rabbi Avraham Weill, the Chief Rabbi of Toulouse, a city in southern France, went to vote in the municipal elections. He was initially turned away on account of his offensive attire…
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Fast Forward Dieudonne Fined $24K for ‘Gas Chamber’ Quip
French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala was fined 22,500 euros ($24,000) on Thursday for a jibe against a radio journalist in 2013 suggesting that hearing the broadcaster speak made him think of Nazi gas chambers. Creator of the controversial “quenelle” gesture that went viral on social media two years ago, Dieudonne this week already received a…
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Fast Forward Dieudonne Convicted for Charlie Hebdo Joke
A French comedian was found guilty on Wednesday of condoning terrorism for a joke posted on his Facebook account after Islamist attacks in Paris that killed 17 people in January, but escaped a possible jail sentence. The Paris court sentenced Dieudonne M’bala M’bala to a suspended sentence of two months in jail. He had risked…
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