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Topless protesters disrupt Marine Le Pen's May Day speech

Activists interrupted French far-right leader’s address displaying slogans including 'Heil Le Pen' and 'Stop Fascism' on their breasts.

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Topless protesters have disrupted a May Day speech by French far-right leader Marine Le Pen in central Paris, reports The Independent.

The three activists interrupted the Front National leader’s address and pulled mock Nazis salutes, displaying slogans including “Heil Le Pen” and “Stop Fascism” on their breasts.

They chanted anti-fascist slogans from a balcony of a building overlooking the stage.

Ms Le Pen was using the traditional workers’ holiday to attack her political rivals, arguing that her party was “right on everything”.

“They have allowed massive immigration to install itself in France. They have unpinned the Islamic fundamentalist grenade,” she said. “We are right on everything.”

The activists who stormed the speech were from the Femen group, which has made a name for itself by pulling eye-catching stunts that feature nudity.

National Front security guards seized the protesting women, who were later arrested.

Read more of this report from The Independent.