French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Thursday said those behind death threats against a judge and prosecutors trying her in a graft trial should be punished, in her first comments on a police investigation into the abuse.

The grave in western France of the co-founder of the country's main postwar far-right movement Jean Marie Le Pen has been vandalised, his former party said on Friday, denouncing an "unspeakable" act.

An image posted by one of the daughters of the former far-right leader, who died in January, showed that the stone cross adorning the grave had been smashed into pieces.

French police have opened an investigation into death threats against a judge and two prosecutors involved in a corruption trial of far-right leader Marine Le Pen in which she could be barred from contesting the 2027 presidential election,

The vandalism was first reported by Le Pen’s daughter, Marie-Caroline Le Pen, who posted an image of the damaged grave on social media

The grave of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front, has been damaged by vandals, his family said on Friday. Marion Marechal, Le Pen's granddaughter, said on her X account that the grave, in the cemetery of La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany, had been found defaced on Friday, three weeks after his death aged 96.

Marine Le Pen, French far-right leader, called for punishment of those issuing death threats against judges and prosecutors in her graft trial. These threats, tied to a far-right website, come amid her aim to run in the 2027 election,

Police in France's western region of Brittany said they are investigating the damage to the grave, which was reportedly caused by a sledgehammer. View on euronews