FILE PHOTO: Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and leader of French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National) party, attends a news conference ahead of a parliamentarian debate on migration at the National Assembly in Paris, France, October 7, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was acquitted on Tuesday of breaking hate speech laws in late 2015 when she posted images of Islamic State atrocities on Twitter.
Le Pen displayed the three images, including one of the decapitated body of American journalist James Foley, after a prominent television interviewer compared her party to the Islamist militant group.
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