Inflammatory Comments: Modern Image

Jean Marie Le Pen Dept: Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and outgoing leader of the anti-immigration party, made a crack about the size of a Jewish journalist's nose after the French reporter alleged he was assaulted at the convention by security guards, according to Montreal Gazette. Mickael Szames, who said he was beaten and pushed to the ground by Le Pen's security guards while trying to enter a social event. "You couldn't tell by looking at his identity card, nor at his nose." Marine Le Pen, seen as a politician who could give France's far-right movement a more modern image, assumed control of the National Front yesterday under a cloud of controversy sparked by her father's inflammatory comments. "He complained it was because he was Jewish he was thrown out," Le Pen said of France 24 reporter As reported in the news.
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