Jean-Marie Le Pen died at 96, follow our live

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front and figure of the French far right, died at the age of 96 this Tuesday, January 7, his family told AFP. He was hospitalized last November for tests, “as a precaution”.

He had already been hospitalized in April 2023 after a heart attack, an “alert” considered “serious” at the time. A state of health which had prevented him from being prosecuted in the case of the assistants of MEPs of the RN, his case was “disjointed” after a medical expertise noted “a profound deterioration” of the physical state and psychological of the former far-right leader, believing that he was neither able to “be present” nor to “prepare his defense”.