Marine Le Pen took the reins from her father Jean Marie in 2011 and expelled him from the party over his anti-Semitic comments.Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images

Marine Le Pen to sue alleged neo-Nazis who appeared on video with her father before trial – POLITICO

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PARIS — Marine Le Pen plans to sue a purported neo-Nazi rock group after its members appeared on video with her elderly father over the weekend.

The video, which was first obtained and shared French investigative outlet Mediapart, surfaced on Monday, the first day of an embezzlement trial that could derail Le Pen’s presidential ambitions. The video appears to shows 96-year-old Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the far-right National Front, and members of the Lyon-based band Match Retour at the elder Le Pen’s home west of Paris, Mediapart reported.

Match Retour is, according to Mediapart, associated with the a British white supremacist group named Blood & Honour. The U.S.-based Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremists, calls the group a “shadowy international coalition of racist skinhead gangs.” The group’s French branch was outlawed in 2019.