A French court in Lyon ruled Tuesday that the cartoonist known as Sinי was innocent of “inciting racial hatred” in an article that said Jean Sarkozy, son of the French president ...

France marks 10 years since the series of attacks that shook the country in January 2015. We also speak to Professor Paul ...

Sarkozy's career has been shadowed by legal ... We are not politically engaged," declared financial prosecutor Jean-Francois Bohnert of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), which ...

Sarkozy, 69, who remains influential and reportedly ... pressing down with his feet to close it”. Jean-François Bohnert, the public prosecutor, said on Monday: “We now have proof on file ...

Sarkozy’s constant attacks against immigration and Islam earned him the nickname “Nicolas Le Pen” in the Wall Street Journal. As Marine Le Pen, Jean-Marie’s daughter and – at the time ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died Tuesday aged 96, was the far-right bogeyman of French politics, infamously dismissing the Holocaust as a detail of history and spending half a century whipping up anger ...

McFadden Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founding father of ... placing third with 17.9 percent of the vote behind François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy; in 2017, with 33.9 percent, losing to the centrist ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the far-right ... This tactic helped conservative Nicolas Sarkozy secure the presidency in 2007, and being tough on crime and immigration is now more mainstream.

French President Emmanuel Macron described Jean-Marie Le Pen as a "historic figure of the far right", adding that "history will judge" his role in the country's political life.

The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the party once known as the National Front, occurs at a time when the mainstreaming of far-right politics in France seems almost complete. Le Pen was, ...