French Nazi Hits the Skids

Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:10:25 am PDT

French fascist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has fallen on hard times, and it couldn’t happen to a nicer crypto-Nazi: France’s Le Pen selling bullet-proof car on eBay.

PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen is looking to make a bit of extra cash by putting his old bullet-proof car up for sale on eBay.

Le Pen, who stunned France in the 2002 presidential election when he finished second, put his party headquarters up for sale earlier this year after humiliating defeats in presidential and legislative elections last year left his group deep in the red.

Another drain on Le Pen’s finances was the 10,000 euro (7,922 pound) fine he incurred in February when a court found him guilty of “contesting crimes against humanity” for saying the Nazi occupation of France was “not particularly inhumane”.

Asked why the car was up for sale, a National Front spokesman said: “Money, money, glorious money.”