Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader, attends the inauguration of the Presidential campaign headquarters in Paris, France, on wednesday November 16, 2016.
Photographer: Christophe Morin / Bloomberg
LIVE UPDATES: Marine Le Pen, head of the French far-right National Front, has appealed to Russian banks to fund her election camp as she is sued over a previous loan from the now-bankrupt Czech-Russian Bank.
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