The “Marseille first” senator reacted this Tuesday, January 7 on BFMTV to the death of the ex-boss of the National Front. He talks about the disappearance of a “political father”.
“I am a faithful one.” Stéphane Ravier, “Marseille first” senator from Bouches-du-Rhône, reacted this Tuesday, January 7 to the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen. For the Marseille municipal representative, the co-founder of the National Front is the one who “convinced” him to get involved in politics.
“It’s a political father that I lost, it’s an immense sadness that invades me this morning,” summarizes the ex-RN elected official.
“I know that I am a senator by the will of the electors by the will of the voters of Bouches-du-Rhône, that I was a sector mayor, a municipal councilor by the will of the voters but it was initially, thanks to Jean-Marie Le Pen was the one who convinced me 35 years ago to leave my house to put up posters and distribute leaflets,” says the Marseille elected official.
A life “in the service of France”
For him, Jean-Marie Le Pen “put his life in the service of France” for “50 years of public life”. A man who, according to Stéphane Ravier, defended the “integrity” of his country, particularly during the Algerian and Indochina wars.
Elected deputy in 1956, Jean-Marie Le Pen interrupted his mandate to participate in the Algerian war a few months later and in particular in the battle of Algiersone of the bloodiest episodes of the conflict. Suspicions fell on his active participation in the torture of FLN activists.
“We tortured because it had to be done. When we bring you someone who has just planted twenty bombs that could explode at any moment and he doesn't want to talk, you have to use means exceptional measures to force him to do so,” he told the newspaper Combat in 1962.
The man who ensured a certain longevity to the far right over the last 50 years died this Tuesday, January 7 at the age of 96.
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