Far-Right Leader Marine Le Pen to Face Trial for Sharing ISIS Atrocity Images

In December 2015, the president of the National Rally had posted on her Twitter account three photos of atrocities committed by jihadist fighters of the Islamic organization, with a tweet "Daesh, that’s it!".

The photos showed a living Syrian soldier crushed under the tracks of a tank, a Jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage, and a photo of James Foley, an American journalist, beheaded.

The prosecution had requested the trial, in accordance with a law in the French penal code punishing the dissemination of violent messages likely to be seen by a minor. Marine Le Pen faces a sentence of three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros.

Marine Le Pen had her parliamentary immunity revoked, as a Member of the European Parliament and then as a Member of Parliament, before receiving a psychiatric examination order, a common procedure in such criminal proceedings.