This Saturday, far-right leader Marine Le Pen will officially launch her presidential campaign. While her stated aim is to win next spring's election, her hope is to replicate her father's performance in 2002, when he beat all predictions and reached the run-off. To do so, his daughter has worked hard to transform the National Front into a "normal" party. So who is Marine Le Pen? Is there truly a "new" National Front?
Adolf Hitler’s "Mein Kampf" is still a bestseller in countries such as Turkey, Japan and Indonesia. Here in France, the rights to the book will fall into the public domain (become copyright free) in 2016. Philippe Coen explains to Annette Young why he is launching a campaign to regulate the publication of "Mein Kampf", particularly on the internet.
MEDIAWATCH, Tues 13/9/2011. A new iPhone application, "Jew or Not Jew?" is causing a stir here in France. The creator is himself Jewish and says it is "intended for fun", but anti-racism group SOS Racisme has threatened to take Apple to court if they do not withdraw the application.
Former Hungarian gendarmerie captain Sandor Kepiro, once the world’s most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect, has died in Budapest aged 97, six weeks after he was cleared of ordering mass executions in the Serbian town of Novi Sad in January 1942.
Former Christian Dior designer John Galliano told a French judge on Wednesday that he cannot remember making the anti-Semitic insults that landed him in court because of his addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs.
Haute couture bad boy John Galliano appears before a French court Wednesday to answer to charges related to anti-Semitic comments he made in a Paris bar. Dropped by Dior, the British designer is expected to blame drug and alcohol addiction.
Four months after allegedly insulting a Parisian couple with anti-Semitic remarks, John Galliano is appearing in court. The design icon was fired as creative director at Christian Dior after the incident, ending a highly successful 15-year collaboration. Celebrities the world over sought to wear Galliano's designs, but whether there's any future in the designer's previously stellar career is now in question.
Former Dior fashion designer John Galliano will appear before a Paris court Wednesday for allegedly unleashing an anti-Semitic rant in a Paris bar earlier this year. He faces a possible six months in jail and a €22,500 fine if convicted.
MEDIAWATCH, Tues., 21/6/2011: We look at John Galliano's upcoming case for an anti-Semitic rant last February in a Paris café. Also: Greece should leave the eurozone, says The Guardian's economics editor. Finally, a woman who found a novel way of robbing a mink coat...
Dior's creative mastermind John Galliano was notably absent at the fashion house's prêt-à-porter collection Friday following his dismissal earlier in the week for anti-semitic remarks.
