Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died this Tuesday at the age of 96, will be buried this Saturday, January 11 at Saint-Joseph in La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan). The prefecture banned the demonstrations in advance.
The funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died Tuesday at the age of 96, will take place this Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan), in the strictest family privacy, with a device security measures to “prevent possible disturbances to public order”.
On Friday, the prefect of Morbihan Pascal Bolot issued an order prohibiting demonstrations in the town, given that “the political personality of the deceased” was “likely to attract, on the sidelines of the religious ceremony and the burial, a large crowd composed of both sympathizers but also possibly opponents.”
Risks of “confrontations”
The prefecture also justifies its order by “the risks of disturbances and counter-demonstrations likely to provoke clashes between antagonistic movements with diametrically opposed ideologies and regularly inciting violence”.
According to the Morbihan prefecture, “a security system will be put in place to ensure that the funerals take place with dignity and prevent possible disturbances to public order”.
Around a hundred law enforcement officers, including a squadron of mobile gendarmes, will be present to avoid any excess, according to a source close to the matter.
A provocative tribune, obsessed with immigration and Jews, Jean-Marie Le Pen was condemned for several of his statements on the Second World War, and for homophobic insults.
After the announcement of his death, several festive gatherings took place across the country. The Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau had deemed these scenes of jubilation “shameful”, while Mathilde Panot, boss of LFI deputies, said she was not “shocked”.
