EP with AFP
Published on 01/16/2025 at 6:06 p.m.
Died on January 7 at the age of 96, Jean-Marie Le Pen was buried on Saturday in the cemetery of his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan), in the strictest family privacy. His three daughters, Marie-Caroline, Yann and Marine Le Pen, however, wanted to organize another tribute, in Paris, this one open to the public and it took place this Thursday at the Notre-Dame du Val-de-church. Grace.
Only 400 hand-picked guests were able to enter the religious building. In addition to the members of the National Rally, its president Jordan Bardella at the head, there were Marine Le Pen’s opponent, Éric Zemmour, but also Bruno Mégret, former number two of the FN who had broken with Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1998 or Carl Lang, also dissenting. Philippe de Villiers was also present.
Around two thousand people were confined to the square, on which two giant screens were broadcasting the ceremony.
Far-right polemicist Éric Zemmour was present this Thursday at the tribute ceremony. He was Marine Le Pen’s opponent in the presidential election with his Reconquest party.
Bruno Mégret, former number two of the FN who broke with Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1998 to create the national republican movement.
RN deputy Sébastien Chenu and Philippe de Villiers, former deputy and president of the Movement for France (MPF), a sovereignist political party, attended the mass given in tribute to the founder of the FN, in the Val de Grace church in Paris .
Former FN MEP (from 1989 to 2019) Bruno Gollnisch was also among the representatives of the French far right present at this tribute.
Remaining in the street near the church, the former comedian Dieudonné, convicted of anti-Semitism, estimated that Jean-Marie Le Pen “was a free man” in the middle of a “political landscape that was perhaps too narrow”.
Marine Le Pen, former RN presidential candidate and president of the RN group in the National Assembly was necessarily present this Thursday.
The current president of the RN Jordan Bardella attended the religious ceremony this Thursday, alongside other party executives.
Louis Aliot, member of the RN and former companion of Marine Le Pen until 2019, also participated in the ceremony in memory of the former far-right leader.
Marion Maréchal Le Pen, granddaughter of the deceased and niece of Marine Le Pen, was present.
Pierrette Lalanne, former wife of Jean-Marie Le Pen (left) and Catherine Griset, RN European deputy were spotted among the participants this Thursday, at the Val de Grace church.
Around two thousand people gathered around the Val de Grace church this Saturday, for tribute to the former far-right leader.
