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Le Pen will 'never forgive' herself for excluding father from far-right party

Jean-Marie Le Pen tries to come back and steal the limelight with an impromptu appearance at an RN meeting in 2015. AFP/KenzoTriboullard

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she will never forgive herself for expelling her father Jean-Marie Le Pen from the party he founded and she rebranded, after he died last week aged 96.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was convicted several times for his openly racist and anti-Semitic statements, and had boasted of torturing prisoners during the war against Algeria.

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