He made the comment when talking about French singer Patrick Bruel, who is Jewish.

Mr Le Pen - currently honorary president of the FN - has previous convictions for inciting racial hatred.

He was fined 1.2m francs (183,200 euros; £149,000) after calling the Nazi gas chambers "just a detail in the history of World War II" in 1996.

Later he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity as an MEP and fined in Germany for a similar comment judged to have minimised the Holocaust.

Critics see the statement about Bruel as a reference to Nazi death camp ovens in which Jews and other victims were cremated.

The video was taken off the FN's website and Ms Le Pen rebuked her father - the first time she has done so in public.

She said she was convinced his words had been maliciously misinterpreted but it was "a political mistake" for him not to have anticipated this happening.