Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time' ...

6) Goodbye to the 'useless' European Parliament After 35 years sitting on the hemicycle, Jean-Marie Le Pen shed no tears as he bid goodbye to the European Parliament. Instead, he used his final ...

Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, ...

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. Enlisted in the uniform of the French army in Indochina and Algeria, tribune of the people in the National Assembly and the European Parliament, he always served ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has died aged ... Chirac went on to win with a record 82%. Le Pen's career had peaked. He lost his seat in the European Parliament in 2003, following his prosecution for ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen ... birthday as a member of the European parliament – a post he retained until 2019. Jordan Bardella, president of the RN party, said Le Pen “always served France, defending ...

(AP Photo/H. Babout, File) FILE - French former far right National Front leader Jean Marie Le Pen looks for his seat at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, eastern France, July 1, 2014.

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France ... for helping seed “this anti-national spirit.” Le Pen lost his European Parliament seat in 2002 for a year for assaulting a Socialist ...

Father and daughter went on trial last year on charges they and other senior NR party figures embezzled European Parliament funds with a fake jobs scheme. Jean-Marie Le Pen did not have to attend ...