Pierre Bienaimé
Jan. 9, 2015
France's rising right-wing National Front party thinks it might stand to gain in popularity after the armed attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine and continuing hostage crises that have killed more than a dozen people in and around Paris since Wednesday.
Earlier today Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and onetime face of the party, tweeted a black-and-white photo of his daughter, presumed 2017 presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen, with the words "Keep Calm and Vote Le Pen."
The messaging suggests that putting the National Front in power would help address what the party believes to be the root cause of the attacks: Muslim immigration to France. In a statement following the attacks, Marine Le Pen herself was less direct, though she spoke of a "war" that extremists had declared on the country.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/frances-right-wing-national-front-is-positioning-itself-to-take-advantage-of-this-weeks-attacks-2015-1
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