FrenchFrench far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Thursday withdrew a photograph of the decapitated body of US journalist James Foley from her Twitter account after his parents accused her of using it for political gain, reports Yahoo! News.
"I did not know it was a photograph of James Foley. It can be accessed by anyone on Google. I learned this morning that his family has asked for it to be removed and of course I took it down immediately," said Le Pen, who posted the image after a journalist compared her National Front (FN) party to the Islamic State group which killed Foley.
The images were tweeted on Le Pen's official account with the caption "This is Daesh" (an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group) and showed Foley's bloodied body with his decapitated head on his torso, a man on fire in a cage, and a victim being driven over by a tank.
Foley's parents John and Diane said Le Pen had used the photograph of their son "shamefully" and they were "deeply disturbed".
