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UNBELIEVABLE: French far right figurehead jean marie le pen dies - Caught on Camera

Le Pen eventually revealed that he lost his eye while driving a tent peg into a hole, and not, as was widely thought, in a brawl (Credit: AFP)

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died Tuesday aged 96, was the far-right bogeyman of French politics, infamously dismissing the Holocaust as a detail of history and spending half a century whipping up anger over immigration.

The co-founder of the far-right National Front -- later renamed the National Rally -- was eventually booted out of the party by his daughter Marine for anti-Semitism.

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