FRENCH EXTREME RIGHT LEADER JEAN MARIE LE PEN TAKES PART AT LAST SESSION AT THE...

FRENCH EXTREME RIGHT LEADER JEAN MARIE LE PEN TAKES PART AT LAST SESSION AT THE EUROPEAN PARLAMENT IN STRASBOURG. French extreme right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen (L) turns to speak with Jean Claude Martinez (R) at the European Parliament October 23, 2000 in Strasbourg. The European Court of Human Rights rejected a plea from Le Pen to stop France from stripping him of his mandate as a European Parliament deputy. France decided the anti-immigrant leader was ineligible to hold public office for a year because of a 1998 conviction for assaulting a woman politician during the 1997 general election campaign. Le Pen later left the semicircle of the European Parliament.