Criminally, the co-founder of the FN was then sentenced in 2017 on appeal to a fine of 30,000 euros for contesting a crime against humanity, for having repeated these remarks in 2015. Conviction confirmed in 2018 in cassation.
L’Occupation
He was also sentenced for contesting crimes against humanity, this time to a three-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 10,000 euros, in 2012 on appeal. He affirmed in 2005, in the far-right weekly Rivarol, that the German Occupation had not been “particularly inhumane” in France.
In 1993, Jean-Marie Le Pen had already been convicted of public insult in appeal for a fine for his 1988 pun, “Durafour crematory”, targeting the Minister of the Civil Service at the time, Michel Durafour.
On the other hand, he was acquitted on appeal in 2022 for having attacked several personalities committed against the far right in a video on his blog in 2014, saying about the singer Patrick Bruel, of Jewish faith: “Listen, we will make a batch next time.”
As early as 1958, when he was a young MP, he told the former head of government Pierre Mendès France: “you are aware that you crystallize in your character a certain number of patriotic and almost physical repulsions”.
Jean-Marie Le Pen filmed singing with musicians close to the neo-Nazi sphere: “I’m going to make you run redhead…” (VIDEO)
Races, Muslims and Roma
In 1998, Jean-Marie Le Pen and his number two in the FN at the time, Bruno Mégret, were ordered to pay damages to the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF), for comments on “the “racial inequality” held in 1996 and 1997.
Mr. Le Pen was then fined 10,000 euros on appeal for inciting racial hatred in 2005. In an interview with the newspaper Le Monde on April 19, 2003, he said: “The day we have in France , no longer 5 million but 25 million Muslims, they are the ones who will command And the French will tear down the walls, go down the sidewalks and lower their eyes.
In 2014, he was fined 5,000 euros on appeal for saying in 2012 that the Roma, “like birds, (fly) naturally”.
Then he was sentenced on appeal in 2017 to a fine of 5,000 euros for provoking hatred and discrimination, for having described the presence of Roma in Nice as “stinging” and “odorous”, in 2013. Conviction confirmed in 2018 in cassation.
Violence against a candidate
In 1998, Mr. Le Pen was sentenced on appeal to one year of ineligibility and three months in prison for violence against a socialist candidate in Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines), during the 1997 legislative election campaign. Decision confirmed in cassation one year later.
Homosexuals
He was fined 2,400 euros on appeal in 2019, for two public insults targeting homosexuals, including police officer Xavier Jugelé, killed in 2017 in an attack on the Champs-Élysées.
Assistants to MEPs: not fit to be judged
The co-founder of the FN was also indicted in 2019 for embezzlement of public funds in the affair of the parliamentary assistants of MEPs from the National Front (FN, which has since become the National Rally).
During the trial which took place this fall in Paris, his case was “disjointed” after a medical expertise noted “a profound deterioration” in his physical and psychological state, estimating that he was not able or “to be present”, nor to “prepare one’s defense”.
