France's Le Pen family feud worsens

The leader of France's far-right says her father will be summoned before a disciplinary committee for his anti-Semitic remarks.

The leader of France's far-right, Marine Le Pen, says her father will be summoned before a disciplinary committee for his anti-Semitic remarks.

She added that she no longer sees a future for him in the National Front, which he helped found more than four decades ago.

Le Pen reiterated in a televised interview on Thursday that she will not back the candidacy of Jean-Marie Le Pen in December regional elections.

Le Pen entered into an open war a day earlier with her 86-year-old father, honorary president for life of the party, after he repeated comments that the Nazi gas chambers were a "detail in history," for which he's been convicted and then made new offensive remarks.

Daughter Le Pen suggested he would do best to "end his political responsibilities".


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