French right-winger sells car on eBay

30/04/2008 at 21:42

Far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has put his bullet-proof car up for sale on eBay. The listing says that the car is for sale following its replacement, but a Front National spokesman told reporters the aim was “glorious money”, which might well be the truth: in February, Le Pen was fined €10,000 and given a three month suspended prison sentence for describing the Nazi occupation of France as “not particularly inhumane”. At time of writing, the car has just broken the €1 million mark with 72 bids. It remains to be seen how many of those bids are real, and how many are a protest against M. Le Pen’s politics.