17 April 2007
The leader of the extreme-right French National Front, and candidate in Sunday's presidential election, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has told a newspaper that he regretted that French president Jacques Chirac acknowledged France's responsibility for the deportation of Jews during World War II. In an interview with 'Le Parisian', Le Pen said, "Chirac was the only president to do it. Not even Mitterrand did it." Early in his presidency, Chirac recognized that the Vichy government of field marshal P
