PARIS (Reuters) - Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front party said on Wednesday that a jail sentence handed down to an ex-member for inciting racial hatred was "grotesque" and that it would appeal against its own fine in the same case.
A court in Cayenne, capital of the French overseas department of French Guiana, ordered Anne-Sophie Leclere this week to serve nine months in jail and pay a 50,000-euro ($67,800) fine for posting a photo montage of black justice minister Christiane Taubira next to a baby chimpanzee.
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