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Jean-Marie Le Pen Dies: French Far-Right Politician Was 96
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right politician who founded France's National Front party, has died aged 96, according to local reports.
The elder Le Pen was known for his charismatic speeches and provocative and incendiary opinions on immigration, the European Union, culture and traditionalism and religion, especially around Muslims. He is remembered in cinema circles for blasting Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache’s 2012 French film The Intouchables, likening a progressive, multicultural France to the disabled lead character, played by François Cluzet. The film follows a wealthy, physically disabled risk taker and recent widow, whose world is turned upside down when he hires a young, good-humored, black Muslim ex-con, played by Omar Sy, as his caretaker.
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