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France’s National Front Leader Le Pen to Sue Femen Activists

© AP Photo / Michel SpinglerA Femen activist is taken away by police officers as she protests Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 in front of the Lille courthouse in Lille, northern France, where Dominique Strauss-Kahn goes on trial for sex charges in France.
A Femen activist is taken away by police officers as she protests Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 in front of the Lille courthouse in Lille, northern France, where Dominique Strauss-Kahn goes on trial for sex charges in France. - Sputnik International
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Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French right-wing National Front party, is going to file a lawsuit against the Femen movement activists, who twice disrupted her May Day speech, a press release on the party's website said Friday.

PARIS (Sputnik) — On Friday, topless activists from the Femen movement tried to prevent Le Pen from laying flowers at a Joan of Arc monument where the National Front held a rally. Their bodies were covered with anti-Le Pen slogans.

"Marine Le Pen has tasked her lawyer with filing a suit against the Femen activists over a premeditated attack at a Joan of Arc monument as well as for an encroachment on the freedom of demonstrations over the incidents on the Place de l'Opera [Opera Square]," the press release read.

Later in the day, Femen interrupted an address given by Le Pen, accusing her of ultra-nationalism.

Several minutes after Le Pen started delivering her speech, three bare-chested female activists appeared on the balcony of a neighboring house. The women had "Heil le Pen" written on their chests.

© AP Photo / Francois MoriFemen activists with "Le Pen Top Fascist" painted on their bodies appear as France’s far-right National Front president Marine Le Pen places a wreath at Joan of Arc statue during its annual May Day march, in Paris, France, Friday, May 1, 2015
Femen activists with Le Pen Top Fascist painted on their bodies appear as France’s far-right National Front president Marine Le Pen places a wreath at Joan of Arc statue during its annual May Day march, in Paris, France, Friday, May 1, 2015 - Sputnik International
Femen activists with "Le Pen Top Fascist" painted on their bodies appear as France’s far-right National Front president Marine Le Pen places a wreath at Joan of Arc statue during its annual May Day march, in Paris, France, Friday, May 1, 2015

The activists held Third Reich-style flags with National Front symbols on them, performed Nazi salutes and screamed through megaphones.

Le Pen's speech was interrupted for a few minutes until security detained the activists. Shortly afterward, the National Front continued its demonstration.

Femen is a radical feminist group founded in 2008 in Ukraine and currently based in Paris. The group is notorious for its topless way of protesting on a wide range of issues, including gender, religion, homophobia and sexism, national policies and international problems.

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