France's far-right National Rally fires policeman from security team over racist, sexist comments

France's main far-right party has expelled a member who is a policeman after body cam footage of him making racist comments sparked outrage ahead of presidential elections it hopes to win next year. Marine Le Pen, of the National Rally (RN), is eyeing her best chance at the top job after years of seeking to make the anti-immigration party she inherited from her father more palatable to the general public. In the footage dated November last year and published in local daily Midi Libre on Tuesday, the body cam of a policeman in the southern town of Carcassonne captures conversations with colleagues while on duty in which they make racist, homophobic and sexist remarks. The officer who speaks the most, whom Midi Libre identified as part of the security detail of the RN, repeatedly uses derogatory terms for people perceived as of North African or African descent. The report caused indignation, with President Emmanuel Macron's equality minister Aurore Bergé condemning them as "absolutely unacceptable". Read moreFrench presidential candidates clash at first debate before upcoming elections The RN on Wednesday denounced the remarks "in the strongest possible terms", describing them as "cr...