PARIS: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen faced sharp criticism Wednesday after tweeting a graphic image of a Daesh beheading in response to a TV journalist who likened her National Front party to the terrorist group.

“This is Daesh,” Le Pen fired back in a series of tweets picturing grisly Daesh atrocities.

In one image a bloodied body lay with his decapitated head on his chest, another depicted a man on fire in a cage, while a third showed a victim being driven over by a tank.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls described the photos as “monstrous.”