Marine Le Pen learned of the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen from the press, confirms Louis Aliot

POLITICS – It was 12:56 p.m., Tuesday January 7, when a message sent to Agence France-Presse formalized the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front and figure of the French extreme right for almost 70 years old.

At the same time, his daughter, Marine Le Pen, was on a plane leaving Mayotte after a visit of several days to the island devastated by Hurricane Chido. The daughter of the one who was nicknamed the “ devil of the Republic » was therefore unaware of his father's death. That she learned, according to several versions relayed by the press, on the plane after being informed by journalists present alongside her.

A true version according to the mayor of Perpignan and vice-president of the National Rally Louis Aliot, also from the trip to Mayotte. Marine Le Pen's former companion confirmed it this Wednesday, January 8 in the morning Bonjour ! on TF1. “ Do you confirm to us that it was one of his collaborators who told him the news, which was public? “, was asked of the elected representative of the RN, while Marine Le Pen has remained silent on the subject since Tuesday noon.

« Yes, since we were on the plane from Mayotte to Nairobi (Kenya), where we had a technical stopover. It was upon landing in Nairobi that the journalists who were present on the Paris-Mayotte flight informed us of the death “, he soberly replied.

A death yet announced by “the family”

A ” discovered in the press “, which is surprising, when we know that the announcement of the death of the patriarch of the Le Pen family was transmitted by the ” family » Le Pen to AFP. “ It's part of life, it's something which is inexplicable and which is, unfortunately, part of the hazards of a busy political life. Because if Marine Le Pen went to Mayotte it was not to go on vacation but to go to the bedside of the Mahorais », simply decided the one who shared his life for ten years with the current MP.

The day before, it was Europe 1 which – among other media – revealed this story, through its journalist present alongside Marine Le Pen. “ Several of us journalists managed to connect to WiFi (…) and we received the AFP alert on our phones at that time. We showed it to Marine Le Pen’s advisor who was next to us, he was not aware, Marine Le Pen was not aware either”. A testimony identical to that of BFMTV or Figarowhich anonymously quoted a close friend of Marine Le Pen: “ What I can tell you is that she learned the news after you, the journalists.”

Without an official reaction from Marine Le Pen, an open confirmation from her camp was therefore expected. Which is now done, even if quite quickly, Louis Aliot brushed aside this subject to denounce the scenes of jubilation observed Tuesday evening in several large cities in France for “ celebrate » the death of the five-time candidate for the French presidential election, convicted more than twenty times during his existence for racism, incitement to hatred, negationism or anti-Semitism.

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