13 Feb 2021
National Rally leader Marine Le Pen and MEP Gilbert Collard were in court this week as prosecutors demand a 5,000 euro fine against the two for exposing Islamic State atrocities by sharing pictures of them on Twitter in 2015.
The two French politicians had posted the photographs after journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin compared the Front National, as National Rally was formerly known, to the radical Islamic terrorist group.
Both politicians admit to posting the photographs but protested the hate speech charges against them, French newspaper Le Figaroreports, with Le Pen stating: “It is crime, not photographic reproduction of the crime, that undermines human dignity!”