This January 7, 2025 marks a tragic event in the history of France with the commemoration of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, which took place exactly ten years ago. A day also marked by the death of a man who will have been important in the French political landscape of the last 50 years. Jean-Marie Le Pen died at the age of 96 this Tuesday in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), as his family announced to AFP. “Jean-Marie Le Pen, surrounded by his family, was called back to God this Tuesday at 12 p.m.”said his relatives. Born June 20, 1928 in Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan), he left his mark on French political history, as a representative of the extreme right, becoming president of the National Front until 1972. A position that he left in 2011 for the benefit of his daughter Marine Le Pen, who took over.
His daughter also learned of her father's disappearance well after the news, since she was on her way back after her official visit to Mayotte, where a cyclone struck and caused numerous victims several days ago. It was on the plane, during a technical stopover in Nairobi, Kenya, as indicated by a BFMTV journalist, that the president of the National Rally group in the National Assembly learned the news, after all the journalists present at his sides. The 56-year-old politician “isolated herself at the front of the plane to make phone calls, presumably to her family”as our colleagues specify.
Who bought Jean-Marie Le Pen's house in Rueil-Malmaison?
A few months ago, Jean-Marie Le Pen made headlines by selling one of his properties for a very large sum. According to information from the magazine Challengesthe politician who had revealed the amount of his pension and his family, sold his villa in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine) to a company owned by the ultraconservative billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin, as well as the manager of his investment funds, for 2.5 million euros. For this sum, the creator of the Smartbox group offered himself a 300 m2 residence with nine rooms spread over two floorsas well as a pool and one outbuilding of 54 m2all on one land of 1600 m2. It is in this house nicknamed “la Bonbonnière” that Jean-Marie Le Pen lived with his second wife, Jany.
