The European Parliament has lifted French National Front leader Marine Le Pen's criminal and civil immunity, opening the way for race hate charges.
Prosecutors in Lyon in central France are investigating Ms Le Pen for alleged incitement to racial hatred over remarks she made during a speech in 2010.
She likened the sight of Muslims praying in the street to Nazi occupation during World War Two.
The populist far-right leader, who was first elected to the European Parliament in 2004, said ahead of the decision that she was a "dissident" and had invoked her right to freedom of expression.
Ms Le Pen said she was confident she would win any trial.
In the speech, she denounced the holding of Muslim prayers in the streets of France - where a dearth of mosques has forced many to pray outside.
"For those who like to talk about World War Two, to talk about occupation, we could talk about, for once, the occupation of our territory," she said.
"There are no armoured vehicles, no soldiers, but it is an occupation all the same and it weighs on people."
Ms Le Pen won 18% of the vote in the first round of France's presidential election in April 2012, her party's highest-ever score.
The European Parliament's judicial committee last month voted with an overwhelming majority in favour of lifting her immunity.
French politicians abstained to avoid any accusation of a political settling of scores.
As with many national parliaments, members of the European Parliament enjoy immunity from criminal and civil liability for opinions expressed as part of their duties, unless the chamber votes to lift the immunity.
Immunity has been revoked dozens of times for MEPs in the past.
Ms Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, had his European Parliament immunity revoked in 1998 when he said that Nazi gas chambers were "a detail" in the history of World War Two.
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