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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!”
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Head of far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) Marine Le Pen, after a hearing in her trial for tweeting in 2015 images of the Islamic State group s atrocities, leaves the courthouse in Nanterre, west of Paris on February 10, 2021. (Christophe ARCHAMBAULT/AFP)
PARIS, France (AFP) French far-right leader Marine Le Pen appeared in court Wednesday on charges she broke hate-speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, a case she slammed as a politically motivated attempt to silence her.
The trial comes as opinion polls show Le Pen will likely face off again against Emmanuel Macron in next year’s presidential contest after her National Rally made its strongest showing ever in the 2017 vote.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen will go on trial Wednesday on charges she broke hate speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, a case she has slammed as a violation of free speech.