Published on 08/01/2025 07:27
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JM. Le Pen: serial slip-ups and convictions
During his career, Jean-Marie Le Pen made numerous provocative statements which earned him several convictions until his exclusion from the National Front. He has never expressed public regret for his slippages, whether controlled or not.
-Insulting statements, questionable puns, provocations, Jean-Marie Le Pen’s career is punctuated by them. But for a long time, these comments remained confidential, like his party. Everything changed in the 1980s with the electoral breakthrough of the National Front. In 1987, his vision of the Nazi policy of extermination of the Jews caused a scandal when he declared that “gas chambers are a detail of World War II.”
This shocking point of view, which earned him several convictions, preceded an openly anti-Semitic slip-up, including one, a few months later, concerning the Minister of the Civil Service, Michel Durafour. This pun led, this time, to the lifting of his parliamentary immunity and a fine. Another fine and three months suspended prison sentence for contesting crimes against humanity. This time, in the newspaper Rivarol, Jean-Marie Le Pen declared that “the German occupation had not been particularly inhumane.”
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