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Far-Right figurehead Jean-Marie Le Pen dies
Hindustan Times Pune
|January 08, 2025
Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died on Tuesday aged 96, was the far-right bogeyman of French politics, infamously dismissing the Holocaust as a detail of history and spending half a century whipping up anger over immigration.
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The co-founder of the far-Right National Front — later renamed the National Rally (RN) — was eventually booted out of the party by his daughter Marine for anti-Semitism.
A former paratrooper, Le Pen sent shock waves through France in 2002 when he made it to the second round of the presidential election, which was won by Jacques Chirac.
This story is from the January 08, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Pune.
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