The grave in western France of the co-founder of the country's main postwar far-right movement Jean Marie Le Pen has been vandalised, his former party said on Friday, denouncing an "unspeakable" act.

Marion Marechal, Le Pen's granddaughter, said on her X account that the grave, in the cemetery of La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany, had been found defaced on Friday, three weeks after his death aged 96. Le Pen had been in a care facility for several weeks ...

During the night from Thursday to Friday, the grave of far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen (96) in Trinité-sur-Mer (Brittany, France) was vandalized with a sledgehammer. The cemetery was temporarily closed to the public.

The grave of Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's National Front, has been vandalized, causing outrage within his family. Despite his controversial past and divisive policies, his descendants have vowed resilience against such acts.

An image posted by one of the daughters of the former far-right leader, who died in January, showed that the stone cross adorning the grave had been smashed into pieces.

Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time'

Vandals have damaged the grave of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front, his family said on Friday.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was deemed unfit to testify and eventually exempted from prosecution on health grounds. He was born June 20, 1928, in the Brittany village of Trinite-Sur-Mer. His father later ...

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