- PARIS: The French National Front was left red-faced this week after it emerged that a photo it used in its posters of a man made "homeless" by President Nicolas Sarkozy's policies was actually a US model.
Another photo used by presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's party of a derelict factory — to denounce Sarkozy's industrial strategy — turned out to be the picture of a building in the Northern Irish town of Lurgan.
A spokesman from the anti-immigrant party said the party had no plans to replace the photos and claimed they used the one of the American pretending to be homeless because "we have the decency not to photograph people in the street who are unfortunate."
