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She said: “Faced with the violence of scum, our police officers are forced to back off. Hurry up Marine and restore order to Bobigny.”

Front National (FN) MP Marion Le Pen tweeted the jaw-dropping video recorded during demonstration after a man was allegedly raped by police.

A police car had to reverse as quickly as possible from the rioters

A car was torched in the protests

Faced with the violence of scum, our police officers are forced to back off. Hurry up Marine and restore order to Bobigny

The video is taken overlooking the road and shows a police car reversing at speed on a main road, away from dozens of protesters running towards it.

Her aunt, Marine Le Pen, is the presidential candidate for the FN and is riding high in the polls with just weeks to go until the country’s general election.

Marion’s supporters tweeted following the video. One of them, Christophe, said: “People want a change but vote for the same cheats, we need to change the regime to bring back order.”

Emergency service sirens can be heard in the video which was taken in Bobigny, a Paris suburb which has suffered from widespread protests in recent days.

Thousands of people have been protesting in Paris following the alleged rape of a 22-year-old by a police officer.

In her tweet, Marion Le Pen used the French word “racaille’, which means scum.

In 2005, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was heavily criticised for also using this word to describe rioters.