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National Front Suspends Founder Le Pen

Daughter called disciplinary hearing.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the 86-year-old founder of France’s right-wing National Front, has been suspended from his own party. The honorary president was asked to report to a disciplinary hearing by his daughter, party leader Marine Le Pen, after he called the Nazi gas chambers a “detail of history.” Le Pen refused to go, and would not budge from his post. “[They] will have to kill me,” he told AFP. Marine Le Pen has called his remarks “political suicide.” The younger Le Pen is widely expected to run for president in 2017.

Read it at The Independent

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