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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 a series of graphic social media posts by Ms Le Pen, 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. | 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 the Isis terror group, 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. | 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. |
| The far-right leader’s tweets triggered backlash and Mr Foley’s parents said they were “deeply disturbed” by the use of the photograph for political gain. | |
| Mr Foley, a freelance journalist, was captured in Syria in 2012 and beheaded in August 2014. | |
| John and Diane Foley said in a statement: “Our family was informed this morning that Marine Le Pen, a French politician, tweeted a shamefully uncensored picture of our son. | |
| “We are deeply disturbed by the unsolicited use of Jim for Le Pen’s political gain and hope that the picture of our son, along with the two other graphic photographs, are taken down immediately,” they said. | |
| Ms Le Pen later deleted the images, saying she was unaware of the victim’s identity. | |
| Mainstream media largely refrained from showing graphic photos from the incident. | |
| Ms Le Pen has denounced the investigation into the tweets as “political interference”. | |
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