France’s Le Pen hits back at daughter after suspension
The party’s executive committee, chaired by Marine Le Pen, suspended his membership on Monday and said it would strip him of his title of honorary chairman after he repeated his view that Nazi gas chambers were a mere “detail” of the Second World War.
Marine Le Pen, who succeeded her father as party chief in 2011, has sought to rid the party of its anti- Semitic image and position it as an anti-immigrant Eurosceptic force to woo voters before the 2017 presidential elections.
