French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Thursday said those behind death threats against a judge and prosecutors trying her in a graft trial should be punished, in her first comments on a police investigation into the abuse.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said France should follow U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline stance toward countries unwilling to receive deportees, citing his pressure on Colombia as a model for Paris' dealings with Algeria.

French police have opened an investigation into death threats against a judge and two prosecutors involved in a corruption trial of far-right leader Marine Le Pen in which she could be barred from contesting the 2027 presidential election,

The grave in western France of the co-founder of the country's main postwar far-right movement Jean Marie Le Pen has been vandalised, his former party said on Friday, denouncing an "unspeakable" act.

The grave of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front, has been damaged by vandals, his family said on Friday. Marion Marechal, Le Pen's granddaughter, said on her X account that the grave, in the cemetery of La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany, had been found defaced on Friday, three weeks after his death aged 96.

An image posted by one of the daughters of the former far-right leader, who died in January, showed that the stone cross adorning the grave had been smashed into pieces.

Marine Le Pen, French far-right leader, called for punishment of those issuing death threats against judges and prosecutors in her graft trial. These threats, tied to a far-right website, come amid her aim to run in the 2027 election,

French police are investigating death threats targeting judicial officials involved in a corruption case against far-right leader Marine Le Pen. The threats underscore national tensions as Le Pen, accused of misusing EU funds,

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Vandals have damaged the grave of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front, his family said on Friday.

During the night from Thursday to Friday, the grave of far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen (96) in Trinité-sur-Mer (Brittany, France) was vandalized with a sledgehammer. The cemetery was temporarily closed to the public.

When he addressed a political rally of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the German city of Halle, those suspicions seemed confirmed. “There’s too much of a

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she aims to lead France as the president of a "non-aligned" power but insisted she was not seeking the post of prime minister in the case of new legislative elections.