The “Menhir” as it was nicknamed has died. The news fell in the middle of the day on Tuesday January 7, 2025. Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front, died at the age of 96.
In La Manche, the departmental delegate of the National Rally, Franck Simon, expressed “his great sadness as well as that of the members of the National Rally”. “Of course there were language errors, things that sometimes seemed incomprehensible to us. But since 1972 he has been the only one for us to truly defend the homeland, France. » The departmental delegate received numerous calls from Manche activists “very saddened”.
“A great patriot”
For them, Jean-Marie Le Pen remained, despite his exclusion from the party in 2015 and his distance from the line of his daughter Marine Le Pen, a “tutelary figure”. “There was his journey, he had lost his father at the age of 14, he had become involved in politics, and in the army… Yes, there were his errors, his mistakes, but he was the father founder, a great patriot and a great defender of the French. » As France commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher attacks on January 7, Franck Simon believes that Jean-Marie Le Pen “was the first more than 30 years ago to speak about the dangers of Islamism. »
The controversial politician came to the Channel in June 2013. He was then in the middle of the legislative campaign, replacing his daughter Marine who was unable to travel. In Saint-Lô, he castigated the “migratory policy”had also defended the group close to the FN accused of the beating of anti-fascist activist Clément Méric, before going to a “patriotic banquet” in front of a packed room in Saint-Jean-de-Daye. A few meters from a hundred demonstrators denouncing his arrival.
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