IS victim Foley’s family protests French far right tweet

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is facing a police investigation after tweeting pictures of the decapitated body of American hostage James Foley who was brutally murdered by ISIS militants.

“Daesh is THIS!” Le Pen said in angry tweets showing the killings, using the Arabic acronym for the group.

In one image a bloodied body lay with his decapitated head on his chest, another depicted a man on fire in a cage, while a third showed a victim being driven over by a tank.

Le Pen tweeted the photos after Jean-Jacques Bourdin, known for his brash style, said on BFM TV that her party Front National (FN) and Isis both focus on identity, so share a “community of spirit”.

Foley was captured in 2012 among other Westerners, and beheaded in 2014.

The cascade of hate and horror from Le Pen’s Twitter feed, which has more than 830,000 followers, and the hurried retweeting of her outrage by sycophantic National Front lackeys, whose posts were instantaneously shared hundreds more times, was so shocking, many thought her account had been hacked.

“Madame Le Pen: inflaming public debate, political and moral failing, non-respect for victims”, he wrote on his Twitter account.

Le Pen was making an attempt to show the distinction between the 2 still the effort backfired, drawing widespread condemnation, & the inside minister accused her of fomenting ISIS propaganda.

The minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, told lawmakers he has taken the case to a section of the judicial police that deals with illicit content on the Internet.

Foley’s parents John and Diane said Le Pen had used the photograph of their son “shamefully” and they were “deeply disturbed”.

In a radio interview, Kepel said that although Islamic State and the National Front were very different, there were similarities due to their politics of exclusion.

Le Pen on Thursday announced she had taken down the picture of Foley.

“At no point did I say the FN was like Daesh”, he insisted.

Le Pen’s FN scored a record number of votes in regional elections on Sunday, boosted by concerns over the migrant crisis and terrorism, though they failed to win control of any regions.

IS claimed responsibility for the coordinated series of shootings and suicide bombings in which 130 people were killed in Paris on November 13.