Jean-Marie Le Pen’s extreme right-wing National Front has dissociated itself from a splinter group that has been handing out anti-Semitic leaflets in its name.
Le Pen’s spokesman, Alain Vizier, said the head of the group, Michel Schneider, “has been kicked out of the National Front because of his extremist positions.”
“We are very upset because he uses the name of his former boss in our party, but he is in fact in total opposition to Le Pen,” Vizier told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The leaflets, in Arabic, urge France’s Moslem population to rally against “world Zionism.”
They allege that “Zionism rules and dominates directly and indirectly all the vital and strategic areas, including the press, the banking financial institutions, security, justice, the army and finally the power.”
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