French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has died at the age of 96.
Le Pen, who had been in a care facility for several weeks, died at midday on Tuesday “surrounded by his loved ones,” the family said.
Le Pen was a Holocaust denier and an unrepentant extremist on race, gender, and immigration, who founded the French far-right National Front party in 1972.
He reached the presidential election run-off against Jacques Chirac in 2002.
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