Disappearance
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The founder of the National Front, who managed to unite a fragmented extreme right in the 1960s and 1970s, made his name and his family a political empire, managing, through provocations, to impose his racist and identity struggles on the heart of the political debate. He died this Tuesday, January 7, at the age of 96.
The real death of Jean-Marie Le Pen occurred on August 20, 2015. The day the honorary president of the National Front was excluded, by his own daughter, from the party he himself had created in 1972. In the new management, there are no longer or very few friendly faces, companions from the start, faithful or unconditional people. Many died, others preferred to leave the ship so as not to undergo the planned ascension of the youngest of the leader's three daughters, Marine. Jean-Marie Le Pen, then aged 87, can only count on the unwavering support of Bruno Gollnisch, long number 2 in the party and designated heir apparent before being deposed by the man who had dubbed him.
By eliminating those who questioned his authority, the old leader finds himself isolated from his daughter, determined to remove what constitutes, according to her, the last obstacle in her march towards power. For Le Pen, this end of his political career resembles the outcome of a Greek tragedy. A parricide planned for four months, when he had handed over
