In his memoirs published in 2018, Jean-Marie Le Pen had already established his plan for the afterlife. A fervent believer, the founder of the National Front had made it known that he wanted to be buried alongside his parents in the family stronghold of La Trinité-sur-Mer. Died Tuesday January 7 at the age of 96, the man who liked to be nicknamed “the menhir” will be buried in this chic coastal town of Morbihan facing the sea and famous for its marina.
Louis Aliot, former companion of Marine Le Pen and very close friend of the family, announced that the funeral would be celebrated this Saturday in La Trinité-su-Mer. Where Jean-Marie Le Pen was born on June 20, 1928. Where his father, a fisherman, has been buried since August 1942. A German mine had blown up Jean Le Pen's boat. His son, then aged 14, must have recognized his father's body. “One of the worst trials of my life,” he conceded. Anne-Marie Hervé, his mother, a seamstress by trade, died in 1965.
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The ceremony will be held “in family privacy”, Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan, said on TF1.
The most famous man of the French far right died Tuesday at the age of 96. He was admitted to a specialized establishment in Hauts-de-Seine in November. He died there on Tuesday afternoon. His daughter Marine Le Pen, traveling to Mayotte, was not present with her father. The leader of the National Rally learned of the death from the press during a stopover in Nairobi, Kenya. It was French journalists who were traveling with her who informed her that her father had died.
