Disappearance
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From “detail” to “Durafour crematorium”, the former president of the FN has multiplied racist and anti-Semitic provocations throughout his political career.
Died at the age of 96 on Tuesday January 7, Jean-Marie Le Pen multiplied his verbal excesses by making his provocations a trademark, sometimes combining gesture with words as during the legislative elections of 1997. Came to support the eldest of his daughters , Marie-Caroline, candidate in the 8th constituency of Yvelines, he violently attacks the socialist deputy and mayor of Mantes-la-Ville, Annette Peulvast-Bergeal, pushing her against a wall and trying to tear off her tricolor scarf while belching: “We’re sick of you, you know we’re sick of you?” Very violent, the scene, filmed, refers to the youth of the president of the FN, when he did not hesitate to throw punches. An attack which earned him a sentence of two years of ineligibility.
But it is above all on radio and television sets that Jean-Marie Le Pen multiplies the excesses. The one that would pursue him until the end (and that he would repeat) was pronounced in September 1987 on RTL when he said about the gas chambers: “I haven’t studied the issue specifically but I believe it’s a detail in the history of the Second World War.”
Still in 1987, on the set of the moment of truthhe describes AIDS patients as “sydiac” which, for him, are like species of “leper”
