Jean-Marie Le Pen, figure of the French extreme right and finalist in the 2002 presidential election, died this Tuesday at the age of 96 in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), in an establishment where he had been admitted several weeks ago. Two of Jean-Marie Le Pen's visits to Haute-Savoie were sources of memorable controversies, demonstrations and even legal proceedings.
1997: the forbidden visit to Glières
The most stormy and publicized was that, 27 years ago, of the then president of the National Front at the Glières necropolis. This November 29, 1997, ten years after his diatribe on “the gas chambers”, a “detail” of the history of the Second World War, Jean-Marie Le Pen announced his intention to lay a wreath at the Glières memorial, Mecca of the French Resistance, where 105 resistance fighters, shot down by the Nazis on March 26, 1944, are buried there.
Unthinkable and unacceptable for Jean-Marie Le Pen to come and spread his propaganda there. The outcry from veterans and part of the population led the prefect of Haute-Savoie at the time to ban any demonstration on the Morettes site. But Jean-Marie Le Pen, escorted by around fifty frontists, will still come to the site in front of microphones and cameras. He will be turned away by the police.
2002: the Imperial Palace episode
Another standoff, in 2002 with the centrist mayor of Annecy, Bernard Bosson. When the latter discovers that the FN has secretly rented the Imperial Palace to hold its summer school, he becomes mad with rage. Bernard Bosson cancels the rental. Jean-Marie Le Pen takes legal action. The matter will go up to the Council of State which will agree with the FN. Throughout the summer school, demonstrators will shout no to the far-right in front of the gates of the Annecy palace.
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1990: fundamentalist school in Saint-Franc
Jean-Marie Le Pen also came at least two years in a row to the small village of Saint-Franc (150 inhabitants, Savoie), in the Savoy foreland at the beginning of the 90s, at the invitation of one of the inhabitants of the town, a friend of his whose mother ran a fundamentalist school in the hamlet of Sainte-Anne. But here again, his arrival was not unanimous. “Each time he was invited by Mr. Ract, whose mother was the director of a fundamentalist boys' school (…) he came two years in a row and the third time, there was a protest movement, He got fired and never came back.” tells “ici Pays de Savoie” Christiane Broto-Simon, the current mayor of Saint-Franc.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen also came to Annemasse in March 2014 to support the candidacies of Jean Capasso, head of the list in the municipal elections in Annemasse, and Dominique Martin, head of the list in Cluses. He was also present in September 2008 in Evian-les-Bains for the 21st National Front summer school at the Hilton hotel in Evian-les-Bains.
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