Foley, a freelance journalist, was captured in Syria and beheaded in August 2014.
Foley, a freelance journalist, was captured in Syria and beheaded in August 2014.
Paris
: French 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.
-"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 ISIS which killed Foley.
The images were tweeted on Le Pen's official account with the caption -"This is Daesh-" 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-".
Foley, a freelance journalist, was captured in Syria in 2012 and beheaded in August 2014.
The anti-immigration FN received 6.8 million votes in regional elections on Sunday, but failed to win a single region after the mainstream parties worked together to block it.
Le Pen, the daughter of the party's co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, is aiming to run in France's 2017 presidential election.
