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Opposition to Le Pen's London visit (1)

01 January 1991

Opposition to Le Pen's London visit
artdoc February=1992

Jean Marie Le Pen, leader of the French neo-nazi Front National
and the far-right grouping in the European Parliament, visited
London at the beginning of December. Le Pen, who once dismissed
the nazi holocaust as a mere `detail', attended a meeting with
other members of the European right and addressed a meeting
hosted by the far-right grouping, Western Goals. The Ad-hoc
Committee to Stop Le Pen's Visit organised a picket of the French
Consulate in protest at his presence. A second picket two days
later, outside the Charing Cross Hotel where he was speaking,
ended in confrontations between police and protesters outraged
at his presence.

Statewatch, Volume 2 no 1, January/February 1992