MADONNA had already riled
Marine by showing her image at a concert in Tel Aviv. The FN had warned it
would take legal action if she repeated the attack during the French leg of her
tour.
France's far-right National
Front will sue Madonna after she screened footage of party leader Marine Le Pen
with a swastika superimposed on her face at a concert in Paris on Saturday, a
party official said.
The video shown on a huge
screen has already been used on other legs of Madge's MDNA tour and shows her
face merging with other public figures, such as Pope Benedict and former
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled by popular protests last
year.
Marine's face appears for a
few seconds, with the fascist symbol briefly imposed on it, and is followed by
the features of a man resembling Adolf Hitler.
"A private plaintiff's
case for insult will be presented next week," said Florian Philippot,
vice-president of the NF. He called the images an "unacceptable"
provocation for attempting to associate Marine, who won 18 percent of the vote
in April's first-round presidential election in France, with fascism.
Since taking the reins of
the NF last year from her ex-paratrooper father Jean-Marie, Marine has tried to
widen her party's appeal by expelling extremists and cracking down on racist
talk and anti-Semitism. "It is our duty to bring a complaint to defend our
voters and our supporters," Philippot said.
Although Marine's calls for
protectionism and for France's to exit the euro currency have won sympathy with
some parts of the electorate, the party won only two seats in the 577-member
National Assembly in last month's legislative elections, partly due to France's
first-past-the-post electoral system. (Reuters)
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