The deleted image showed Marine Le Pen crying as she learned of Jean-Marie Le Pen's death when she was on a plane back from cyclone-devastated Mayotte.

PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen paid tribute Wednesday to her father Jean-Marie, calling the founder of the National Front, who has died aged 96, a “warrior” in politics as their relationship was marked by notoriously harsh disputes amid her efforts to make the party more mainstream.

The co-founder of France's main postwar far-right movement Jean-Marie Le Pen divided the country even beyond the grave on Wednesday, with the government slamming street celebrations that took place in some French cities after his death.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, a domineering and polarizing figure in French politics and founder of the National Rally party, died at age 96. National Rally President Jordan Bardella announced his death on Tuesday in a post on X.

Paris Match, a popular French tabloid, sparked outrage after publishing a photograph of Marine Le Pen after learning of her father’s death.

National Rally chief Marine Le Pen on Sunday branded as insufficient French government plans to rebuild Mayotte following the devastation left on the Indian Ocean archipelago by Cyclone Chido on 9 December.

Opposition defend reaction after co-founder of National Front, forerunner of daughter Marine’s National Rally, died on Tuesday

His death was as controversial as his life. Last 14 November, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the 96-year-old Front National founder, who’d been taken to a West Paris hospital after collapsing (since 2022 he’d had several small strokes),

A prominent French news magazine deleted a photo showing the moment a tearful Marine Le Pen learned of her father's death following criticism of the image from her far-right party.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has paid tribute to her father ... way back from the French territory of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean, which was hit by a devastating cyclone in December.

in the Indian Ocean, which was hit by a devastating cyclone in December. Marine Le Pen is widely considered as one of France’s top contenders for the next presidential election scheduled in 2027.