French Far-Right Leader Charged Over Islamic State Tweets

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been charged for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence. The move by a court in the Paris suburb of Nanterre comes after the National Assembly voted in November to strip the National Front chief of her parliamentary immunity over the three photos posted on Twitter in 2015.  "Daesh is THIS!" she declared in a series of now-deleted tweets (using an Arabic acronym for IS), which showed uncensored IS killings, including...

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