Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader, dies aged 96
by Kim Willsher in Paris from World news | The Guardian on (#6TCWG)
Former paratrooper led National Front party for decades and courted controversy, being repeatedly fined for contesting crimes against humanity
Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's far-right National Rally party, has died aged 96.
The former paratrooper, who led the party from 1972 to 2011 when it was called the National Front, had been in a care facility for several weeks and died at midday on Tuesday surrounded by his loved ones", his family said in a statement.
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