France's far-right National Front political party founder and honorary president Jean-Marie Le Pen sits in his car as he leaves after the party's executive office at their party's headquarters in Nanterre near Paris May 4, 2015. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
PARIS (Reuters) - National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen disowned his daughter and party leader Marine on Tuesday after she suspended him from the far-right French movement, saying he hoped she would lose the 2017 presidential election.
The party's executive committee, chaired by Marine Le Pen, suspended his membership on Monday and said it would strip him of his title of honorary chairman after he repeated his view that Nazi gas chambers were a mere "detail" of World War Two.
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