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France’s Jean-Marie Le Pen to be Tried Over Gas Chamber Remarks

© AP Photo / Laurent CiprianiFrench far-right Front National former leader Jean Marie Le Pen
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The founder of France’s right-wing National Front party Jean-Marie Le Pen will appear in court over his comment that Nazi gas chambers were “merely a detail” of World War II, the French 20 Minutes daily reported Friday citing unnamed judicial sources.

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On April 2, Jean-Marie Le Pen said in an interview with the French BFMTV that gas chambers used by Nazi Germany to kill Jews were “merely a detail in the history.”

The remark caused extensive criticism from the members of the National Front, including the party’s current leader, Le Pen’s daughter Marine Le Pen.

As a result, in May Jean-Marie Le Pen was stripped of his membership in the National Front, but in July a French court overturned the right-wing party’s expulsion.

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