Although he may have surprised everyone by marrying his long-time partner in January 2021, Jean-Marie Le Pen is still in a precarious state of health. At 96 years old, we learn that the former president of the National Front is in hospital since the start of the week. According to the AFP, which cites his entourage, he must make “analyses”.
Le Point adds that it is because of a “general state of weakness that the treating doctor of Marine Le Pen's father prescribed this stay for him, “security concerns”.
Marine Le Pen reassuring about her father's health
And since then, “There are ups and downs.”as those close to him explain, without being dramatic. Today, rumors about a supposed bedridden state of the man would not be “not founded“, indicates Marine Le Pen.
Moreover, this is not the first time that Jean-Marie Le Pen has had to take a rest. Remember, in April 2023, he remained under observation for two weeks, after a heart attack. Perseverant, the one who was a candidate in the presidential election five times, is nevertheless not sufficiently so to participate in his trial.
Indeed, like its daughter, the menhir is implicated in the affair of the European parliamentary assistants of the National Rally. The trial opened at the end of September 2024, without him.
Why isn't he taking part in his trial?
And for good reason, medical expertise observed “a profound deterioration” of his physical and psychological state. Jean-Marie Le Pen was therefore decided that he was neither able nor “to be present”nor of “prepare your defense”.
His daughter even estimated at the opening of the trial that it was not “not capable of giving consent to any act whatsoever”. And currently, it's under a “protection mandate”under her tutelage, to her and her two sisters Marie-Caroline and Yann Le Pen, whom the finalist in the 2002 presidential election has been living, since February 2024.
