Marine Le Pen under Investigation for Tweeting Horrible ’ISIS’ Images

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was under investigation Wednesday after tweeting graphic images of "ISIS" atrocities, among them a photo of the decapitated body of US reporter James Foley.

The prosecutor's office in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre stated that it had launched an investigation into "the dissemination of violent images" over the National Front leader's series of shock tweets.

The images were tweeted with the caption "This is "ISIS"" and showed Foley's bloodied body with his decapitated head on his chest, a man on fire in a cage, and a victim being driven over by a tank.

Foley's grieving parents said they wanted the images removed immediately, accusing Le Pen in a statement of using the "shamefully uncensored" image to her own political ends.

Foley, a freelance journalist, was captured in Syria in 2012 and beheaded in August 2014.

Mainstream media largely refrain from showing any potentially disturbing or gruesome photos from such incidents.

For his part, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls described the photos as "monstrous."

In parallel, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve alerted the police to look into the tweets "as they do every time these photos are published."

Le Pen's FN scored a record number of votes in regional elections Sunday, boosted by concerns over the migrant crisis and terrorism, though the party failed to win control of any regions.

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