A picture of the damage posted by one of his daughters showed rubble and flowers strewn around the tomb of the founder of France's far-right National Front party.

Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time'

Police in France's western region of Brittany said they are investigating the damage to the grave, which was reportedly caused by a sledgehammer.

The tomb of French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has been heavily damaged by vandals less than three weeks after he was buried. Le Pen, who was a figurehead of polarising anti-immigration rhetoric for decades after founding the National Front party in the 1970s,