Le Pen Family Feud Deepens Within France's National Front
https://archive.today/GVoI3>France's far-right was plunged into disarray Wednesday as National Front leader Marine Le Pen openly split with her father and party founder after gas chamber comments she described as "political suicide". Jean-Marie Le Pen, the outspoken 86-year-old founder of the FN party, has dominated headlines in recent days, repeating his view that Nazi gas chambers were a "detail of history" and defending war-time French leader Petain, who collaborated with Hitler's regime. His latest sorties appear to have been the last straw for daughter Marine, who has been trying to clean up the party's anti-Semitic and racist image since she took over in 2011, a move that has seen it soar in opinion polls as it attracts more mainstream voters. Founder of France's 'National Front' Defends His View of Nazi Gas Chambers as 'Detail of History'
https://archive.today/6yI8p>The founder of France's extreme-right Front National party defended this week having described Nazi gas chambers as a detail of history. In words which will revive accusations that the party remains anti-Semitic, Jean-Marie Le Pen, 86, said in an interview with BFMTV channel he had 'never regretted' making similar statements in the past. 'What I said corresponds to what I think. The gas chambers were a detail of the war, unless we admit that the war was a detail of the gas chambers!, Le Pen declared.Jean-Marie Le-Pen's Notorious 'Detail' Remark
https://archive.today/kp3lM>On two or three occasions Le Pen has referred to Nazi "gas chambers" – not "the Holocaust" – as a "detail" or "minor point" (point de detail) of World War II … Le Pen was brought to trial. In France, as in several other European countries, "Holocaust denial" is a crime. After a drawn-out court battle, he was convicted and fined $200,000 … What is "notorious" is not Le Pen's remark about gas chambers, but rather that he was brought before a court and punished for having made it (and on the basis of an Orwellian French law), and that the media misrepresents, without censure, what he actually said.The last link is less politics-heavy than what i'd like, but didn't see any thread on Le Pen on /polpol/. Do any anons have more information on how things are in France for these coming elections.