French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen died on January 7 at the age of 96. Le Pen held unabashed extremist views on immigration and race and minimized the Holocaust. He founded France's National Front party in 1972 and ran for president in 2002.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has died at the age of 96.
00:05Le Pen was known for downplaying the Holocaust and for his extremist views on
00:10race and immigration. He founded the far-right National Front Party and ran
00:15for president in 2002. His daughter Marine Le Pen took over the party in
00:202011. After rebranding it as the National Rally, she established it as a major
00:26political force.