The party immediately dropped the candidate, but Taubira, who is from French Guiana, on Saturday responded with a fierce salvo against the "deadly and murderous thought" of the FN.

u00a0"It's blacks in tree branches, Arabs in the sea, homosexuals in the Seine (river), Jews in the oven and so on," she said. The FN, an anti-immigration, eurosceptic party, in turn responded by saying it would take legal action against Taubira to "uphold the rules of democratic and republican debate and the honour of millions of French who vote for the party."