This Tuesday, January 7, Jean-Marie Le Pen died at the age of 96. His daughter, Marine Le Pen, was in Kenya when she breathed her last.
“Jean-Marie Le Pen, surrounded by his family, was called back to God this Tuesday at noon.” In a press release sent to AFP, the family of the founder of the National Front announced the latter’s death around 1 p.m.
His daughter, Marine Le Pen, was in Kenya when the news broke. The plane which was to bring her back to Paris after her trip to Mayotte made a technical stopover in Nairobi.
According to France Infoit was journalists who informed him of the death of his father. “There is astonishment in the teams”, according to one of our colleagues on site.
Declining health
The leader of the National Rally appeared moved before isolating herself in the cockpit where she hoped to have a network to contact her loved ones remaining in France.
As a reminder, the health of Jean-Marie Le Pen, 96, had deteriorated in recent months: “heart failure”, “profound deterioration of his physical and psychological capacities“, had identified experts called to determine whether he could appear at the “maxi-trial” of the National Front in the affair of the assistants of Lepenist MEPs.
“No awareness of the purpose, meaning and scope of this hearing”, the doctors concluded again, leaving only Marine Le Pen and twenty-four other party figures to answer for a vast alleged system of embezzlement of European funds for the benefit of training.
For his funeral, Jean-Marie Le Pen had demanded “Beethoven’s concerto in D major for violin and orchestra”.
