He founded the Front National party: Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead!

Paris -Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the right-wing nationalist Front National party, which has since been renamed , is dead.

Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead!
Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead!  © picture alliance / dpa

He died at the age of 96, as the French news agency AFP reported, citing Le Pen's family.

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