PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, has died. He was 96.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right political party the National Front, has died aged 96, a senior party official has announced.

The founding father of France's far-right movement, Jean-Marie Le Pen, died Tuesday in a care facility after a short illness, his family said. He was 96 years old.

Jean-Marie Le Pen espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric that landed him in legal trouble in France, where Holocaust denial is illegal.

Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died last week at the age of 96. The “mass for the repose of the soul” at Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce church took place under tight security,

Jean-Marie Le Pen was deemed unfit to testify ... a high-profile trial over his party’s suspected embezzlement of European Parliament funds that opened in September. French judicial authorities ...

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France ... for helping seed “this anti-national spirit.” Le Pen lost his European Parliament seat in 2002 for a year for assaulting a Socialist ...

6) Goodbye to the 'useless' European Parliament After 35 years sitting on the hemicycle, Jean-Marie Le Pen shed no tears as he bid goodbye to the European Parliament. Instead, he used his final ...