French politician and leader of the country’s National Rally party is facing prosecution for anti-Islamic State tweets dating back to 2015.
Le Pen shared tweets showing images of atrocities that had been committed by the Muslim terrorist group in December 2015 weeks after I.S linked Jihadis slaughtered over 130 people in Paris.
One of the images showed the body of beheaded American journalist James Foley while another showed a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a cage.
The outspoken nationalist leader shared the images in response to a French leftist journalist who had compared the Muslim terror group to her own party. This is despite the fact National Rally has never committed atrocities or war crimes.
Le Pen tweeted “Daesh is this” when sharing the images. Daesh being the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State.
Le Pen lost the French Presidential election of 2017 to Emmanuel Macron.
After spending years as a thorn in the side of the French and EU political establishment Le Pen was stripped of her parliamentary immunity and subsequently charged with circulating violent images.
One Magistrate even called for Le Pen to be subjected to psychiatric evaluation.
The move to prosecute Le Pen comes in the wake of the Yellow Vest protests and widespread disaffection amongst the French people which has put her nationalist party a close second behind the ruling Republic on the Move party (LREM) of President Macron.
The political elite of both France and the EU are bracing themselves for a sharp nationalist rebuke in May’s European parliamentary elections.