French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been charged for posting on Twitter gruesome images of purported atrocities by Islamic State jihadists, prosecutors said.
The move by a judge in Nanterre, just outside Paris, came after the National Assembly voted in November to strip the National Front president of her parliamentary immunity over the three photos of IS violence posted in 2015.
They included a photo of the decapitated body of US journalist James Foley.
Mr Foley, a freelance journalist, was captured in Syria in 2012 and beheaded in August 2014.
Mainstream media largely refrained from showing any potentially disturbing or gruesome photos from the incident.
