Live: Macron office says ‘history will judge’ Jean-Marie Le Pen as far-right firebrand dies at 96




Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former paratrooper and rabble-rousing politician who co-founded France’s National Front and pushed the far right into the limelight, died on Tuesday aged 96. Follow our live blog for reactions to the death of a polarising figure in French politics, who was convicted on numerous occasions of anti-Semitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence.


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