Marine Le Pen: Front National ’not racist’ - BBC News

French National Front leader Marine Le Pen has defended her party from accusations of racism, saying she could not allow Andrew Marr to make such a claim. He had quoted her father, Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, saying he had called the Holocaust “a detail of history“. Ms Le Pen said: “I don’t think it’s racist to say that we cannot take in all the poverty of the world, we cannot take care of hundreds of thousands of people arriving here because our first obligation is to protect the French peop