Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of the French far right, is dead at 96 – POLITICO
by John Lichfield · POLITICOJean-Marie Le Pen, the longtime face of the far right in France notorious for his hate speech and Holocaust denial convictions, has died, the political party he founded said in a statement.
He was 96 years old.
Le Pen had an extraordinary life and career — as a soldier, a far-right parliamentarian, a small publisher of military music and erotic books, an extremist firebrand in a piratical eye-patch and the founder of what became western Europe’s most powerful ultra-nationalist and xenophobic political party under the leadership of his daughter, Marine.