A Paris tribunal is launching a judicial inquiry into comments made by extreme rightist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. The panel is investigating whether Le Pen justified war crimes, a criminal human-rights offense in France, in comments made to the extremist magazine Rivarol in January.
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