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| Marine Le Pen: French far-right leader charged over Isis tweets | Marine Le Pen: French far-right leader charged over Isis tweets |
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| French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been charged over tweets depicting Isis propaganda and violence, prosecutors have said. | French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been charged over tweets depicting Isis propaganda and violence, prosecutors have said. |
| Authorities in December opened an investigation into her graphic social media posts, which included a photograph of the decapitated body of US journalist James Foley. | |
| The other pictures showed a tank rolling over a man in an orange jumpsuit and a man in a cage being burned alive. | |
| Using an alternative name for Isis, the three images were captioned "Daesh is THIS!" | |
| As deputy in the National Assembly, Ms Le Pen is afforded some immunity from prosecution, but in November a cross-party committee in the French parliament stripped her of protection over the three tweets. | |
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