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Final preparations before the burial of Jean-Marie Le Pen in La Trinité-sur-Mer
The funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died Tuesday at the age of 96, must be celebrated Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in family privacy in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan), where many forces of order were deployed to avoid any incident.Despite an overcast sky and cold weather, a few onlookers began to gather peacefully at the end of the morning around the small church Saint-Joseph, in front of which security barriers have been installed, according to AFP journalists on site. “I came as a curious person, to pay tribute to a man who served France and who loved France,” explains Johann, 40, who lives not far away in Auray (Morbihan). Numerous police forces were visible in the town and the port. Around a hundred of them, including a squadron of mobile gendarmes, were mobilized to avoid any overflow, according to a source close to the matter. Some 200 people will be able to attend the funeral which is to be celebrated by Father Dominique Le Quernec, rector of the parish of Carnac, according to a religious source. The former leader of the French far right must be buried in the vault where his parents rest. Barriers were erected around the cemetery, located a few hundred meters from the church. Several wreaths or wreaths of flowers, ordered in particular by deputies or senators of the National Rally, were visible at the town’s florist.”Le Menhir ” had expressed in the past his wish to be buried in the family vault in La Trinité-sur-Mer, a coastal tourist town of 1,700 inhabitants, where he grew up. Another ceremony, “religious and tribute”, will take place on January 16 at 11:00 a.m. in the Notre Dame du Val-de-Grâce church in Paris, attached to the diocese of the French Armies. This mass, decided by Marine Le Pen and her sisters Marie-Caroline and Yann, will be open to the public. The two events should remain conducive to contemplation, estimated Louis Aliot, vice-president of the RN, while on Tuesday evening, several hundred opponents gathered in certain cities in France, including Paris, Lyon and Rennes, to celebrate, with songs, smoke bombs and fireworks, the death of “JMLP”. “They are not going to come and demonstrate at a “And if they do, I suppose that the State will make sure to keep them away,” warned the mayor of Perpignan. – Prefectural order – Friday, the prefect of Morbihan Pascal Bolot issued a ban on demonstrations. in the commune, given that “the political personality of the deceased” was “likely to attract, alongside the religious ceremony and the burial, a large crowd composed of both sympathizers but also possibly opponents”. The prefecture motivates 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”. ‘Interior Bruno Retailleau had judged the scenes of jubilation on Tuesday “shameful” while Mathilde Panot, boss of the LFI deputies, said she was not “shocked”. Provocative tribune, obsessed by immigration and Jews, Jean-Marie Le Pen was condemned for several of his statements on the Second World War, and for homophobic insults. Elected deputy in 1956 under the Fourth Republic, he brought out the French far right of his marginality during a political career which marked the Fifth Republic. This veteran of Indochina then returned to Algeria, where he will be accused of torture – something he has always contested. April 21 2002, he shocked the political class and a large part of French public opinion by reaching the second round of the presidential election behind the outgoing Jacques Chirac. Jean-Marie Le Pen, after having been married to Pierrette Lalanne, the mother of his daughters Marie-Caroline, Yann (herself mother of MEP Marion Maréchal) and Marine, married Jany Paschos for the second time. In 2019, the Breton port and the Saint-Joseph church hosted the funeral of another character who had marked his era, the singer Alain Barrière.mas-sm/et/sp
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