Jean-Marie Le Pen is still hospitalized, Marine Le Pen confirmed on Wednesday, speaking to RTL. The founder of the National Front (FN), aged 96, has been in hospital for almost two weeks to carry out “analyses”, his entourage indicated to Le Parisien on November 13.
“We have, because we love him, concerns about his health,” declared the leader of the RN deputies, however not wishing to say more about her father’s condition. She refused to say whether he was “at the end of his life”. “It’s too violent a question and it touches the privacy of his life and ours too,” she replied to Tomas Sotto.
The finalist in the 2002 presidential election has seen his health deteriorate for several years. “He is 96 years old and he is hospitalized regularly. There is nothing more or less than the episodes that we have already experienced,” Marine Le Pen declared last week in a less alarmist tone to several journalists on the sidelines of the trial of the RN assistants.
The founder of the FN was hospitalized in April 2023 after a heart attack, an “alert” considered “serious” at the time. He also had to be hospitalized for a few days in February 2022 after suffering a transient ischemic attack.
Prosecuted in the case of the assistants of RN MEPs for which his daughter and the party are currently being tried, his case was “disjointed” after a medical expertise had noted “a profound deterioration” in his physical and psychological state , believing that he was unable to “be present” or “prepare his defense”.
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“It is established that (Jean-Marie Le Pen) is not capable of giving consent to any act whatsoever,” Marine Le Pen indicated at the end of September, at the opening of the trial.
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.
