Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s right-wing Rassemblement National (National Rally) party, will stand trial for publishing images of atrocities committed by Daesh on Twitter in December 2015, a French judge announced this week.
In 2015, the French politician tweeted images showing the decapitated body of American reporter James Foley, who was executed by Daesh in August 2014, Jordanian air force pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh being burned alive in a cage in January 2015 and another victim being run over by a tank. She tweeted the images after French media compared her party to Daesh.