The founder and former leader of France’s far-right National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, 87, was fined by a French court for denying crimes against humanity over a remark he made that the Nazi gas chambers are just a “detail” of World War II history.

The current leader of France's far-right National Front political party, Marine Le Pen, is trying to distance the party from its anti-Semitic history - and even suspended her own father for his extremist views.