The leader of France’s extreme-right National Front hinted that he might not appear for a German trial on charges he trivialized the Holocaust. “I’m not normally very keen on obeying orders — and never when they come from abroad,” Jean-Marie Le Pen said after German prosecutors announced plans to investigate him. Le Pen faces possible trial for comments he made in Munich in December 1997, when he reiterated his view that the Holocaust was merely “a detail” in the history of World War II.
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