Jean-Marie Le Pen hospitalized since the start of the week to do “analyses”

“There are ups and downs,” according to Jean-Marie Le Pen’s entourage. This Wednesday, this same source indicated that the 96-year-old man had been hospitalized since the beginning of the week to carry out “analyses” and denied “unfounded” rumors regarding a supposed bedridden state of the former president of the National front.

The father of Marine Le Pen, finalist in the 2002 presidential election, has seen his health deteriorate for several years. Prosecuted in the case of the assistants of RN MEPs, his case was “disjointed” after a medical expertise had noted “a profound deterioration” in his physical and psychological state, estimating that he was not able to neither “to be present”, nor to “prepare one’s defense”.

According to his daughter, Jean-Marie Le Pen “is not capable of giving consent to any act whatsoever”

Two days before the opening of the hearing, Jean-Marie Le Pen was filmed in his home in Hauts-de-Seine in the company of musicians from the Lyon neo-Nazi rock group Match Retour. This is affiliated with the Blood & Honor group, dissolved by the government in July 2019 for its neo-Nazi ideology.

Marine Le Pen subsequently announced that she would file a complaint for “abuse of weakness” against the musicians, whom she accuses of having taken advantage of the diminished state of her father, placed under a legal protection regime. “It is recorded 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.

Our file on Jean-Marie Le Pen

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 together.