Dutch anti-Muslim leader Geert Wilder expresses “absolute disgust” over Jean-Marie Le Pen’s alleged anti-Semitism, triggering crisis which could benefit Nigel Farage
Geert Wilders, the Dutch anti-Muslim leader and the Front National’s most important ally, has described Mr Le Pen’s comment he would make an “oven load” of a Jewish critic as “disgusting” and has written to Miss Le Pen demanding an explanation.
“If these statements were indeed made and meant, then they are absolutely disgusting and I have told the Front National so,” he said.
Responding to criticism by Patrick Bruel, a popular French singer and Jewish, Mr Le Pen said last weekend, “we’ll do up an oven load next time”.
The comment was widely interpreted as a reference to the furnaces used by the Nazis to dispose of their victims during the Holocaust.
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