(AP Photo/Herve Merliac, File) FILE - Jean Marie Le Pen and his daughters Marine Le ... the Holocaust and was convicted multiple times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence.

The death of French fascist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was accompanied by cloying tributes from fascists, conservatives and liberals alike, writes Olly Haynes – quite a send-off for a man once described as the ‘devil’ of French politics.

Being implicated in acts of torture and the murder of an Arab Muslim nationalist were not mentioned when Jean-Marie Le Pen was honoured in a military church following his death on January 7, at the age of 96. Those packing Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce in ...