The French extreme right-wing party National Front's founder Jean-Marie Le Pen's grave has been desecrated, and the grave cross that adorns the grave has been crushed.
"Respect for the dead is what distinguishes a civilization from barbarism", writes France's right-wing politician and interior minister Bruno Retailleau about the vandalism.
Jean-Marie Le Pen made politics out of racist and anti-Semitic statements. He died in January, 96 years old, but as early as 2011, he was forced out of the party by his daughter Marine Le Pen.
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Le Pen's family grave is located in La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany.
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