Le Pen Calls Nazi Gas Chambers ‘A Detail’ of WWII
Jean Marie Le Pen, the leader of French neo-Nazi party “Front National” and friend and ally of Filip DeWinter of the Belgian fascist group Vlaams Belang, is back in the news again — for reiterating his Holocaust denial in a speech to the European Parliament: Le Pen calls gas chambers “detail” of WW II.
PARIS (JTA) — Extreme rightist Jean-Marie Le Pen told the EU Parliament that “gas chambers were a detail in the history of the Second World War.”
Following the remark, which he made on Wednesday, European Union Parliament members drafted an accord that could prevent the 81-year-old Le Pen from presiding over July’s inaugural session of parliament, Reuters reported.
Meanwhile, so-called “anti-jihad” bloggers continue to promote DeWinter and the Vlaams Belang, despite his longstanding alliances with Le Pen and American Jew-haters like Pat Buchanan, because his anti-Muslim bigotry agrees with theirs.
A photograph taken in May 2007 at the funeral of Vlaams Blok founder Karel Dillen, showing Vlaams Blok/Belang leaders Filip DeWinter and Frank Vanhecke, with French National Front leaders Jean-Marie Le Pen and Bruno Gollnisch.
