France’s far-right National Front (FN) held its annual May Day rally in Paris on Friday amid divisions within the party over whether its founder and honorary president, Jean-Marie Le Pen, should be expelled from the group.Scores of supporters gathered in the French capital to take part in the event, which the party has held for the past 27 years. The rally was temporarily disrupted after three topless Femen activists interrupted a speech by the FN’s leader, Marine Le Pen, by making Nazi salutes and shouting “Heil Le Pen”.
Marine Le Pen has since announced that she will file a complaint against Femen.The rally was further marred after FN supporters attacked journalists from French television channels Canal+ and France 5.
The two incidents have highlighted the FN’s reputation as a violent, fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic party, which Marine Le Pen has worked hard to abolish ever since taking over its leadership from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, in 2011. http://www.france24.com/en/20150501-france-divsions-over-jean-marie-le-pen-far-right-national-front-may-day-rally Comments to taglines82@gmail.com
