The former president of the National Front is in hospital.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, 96, has been hospitalized since the beginning of the week to carry out “analyses”, his entourage said on Thursday. “There are ups and downs“, continued this same source, who nevertheless denied “unfounded” rumors regarding the supposed bedridden state of Marine Le Pen’s father.
The finalist in the 2002 presidential election has seen his health deteriorate for several years. Prosecuted in the case of the assistants of RN MEPs, his case was “disjointed” after a medical expertise had noted “a profound deterioration” in his physical and psychological state, estimating that he was not able neither “to be present”, nor to “prepare your defense“.
“It is recorded that (Jean-Marie Le Pen) is not capable of giving consent to any act whatsoever.t”, indicated at the end of September, at the opening of the trial, Marine Le Pen.
The latter, as well as her two sisters Marie-Caroline and Yann Le Pen, have been the beneficiaries of a “protection mandate” – a measure comparable to guardianship – since mid-February, which allows them to carry out various acts in the name of their father, alone or in concert.
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