This January 7, 2025 could well have been fatal for Marine Le Pen, at the very moment when her father Jean-Marie Le Pen died, at 96 years old. Two boats, including one carrying Marine Le Pen, collided on Tuesday in Mayotte, leaving 10 injured according to the local press. But the leader of the RN deputies is unharmed.
Marine Le Pen, present on the barge in Mayotte at the time of the collision on Tuesday, was finally able to reach Petite-Terre thanks to a border police zodiac to take her return flight. In Mayotte, the islands of Grande-Terre and Petite-Terre [où se trouve l’aéroport] are connected by rotations of boats, barges.
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“It arrived very, very, very quickly, it was inevitable”
Marine Le Pen, traveling in the 101e French department following Cyclone Chido which hit the island very hard three weeks ago, was on the barge from Grande-Terre to Petite-Terre when the accident took place. “ [Le bateau] happened very, very, very quickly, it was inevitable,” testified the leader of the National Rally on the Mayotte La Première channel, who mentioned a death toll of 10 injured.
“The maneuver to turn was inevitably going to throw the bottom of his barge into ours, it hit quite hard. Many people were lucky in their misfortune,” declared Marine Le Pen, who specified that “the chief mechanic was injured” and that he had probably “broken one or two ribs or three of elsewhere “.
The RN clarified that no member of the delegation accompanying Marine Le Pen had been injured.
