Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter was on the other side of the world when her father died. She found out about his death quite harshly.
Marine Le Pen learned of her father’s death in very special circumstances, far from him and his family. The president of the RN group in the National Assembly had decided to go to Mayotte for a few days, as part of a political trip. The announcement of the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen by the France Presse agency came as his daughter was returning to mainland France.
As journalists from Le Monde report, it was at Nairobi airport, on the flight bringing her back from Mayotte, that Marine Le Pen learned of the death of her father. It was even by reading the AFP dispatch, during a stop on the tarmac, that she became aware of the information, she was then alongside the mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot, number two of the RN , who also needs his former companion in private life. Le Monde indicates that she had been informed of the rumor of her father’s death by her press officer.
Marine Le Pen will not be in Paris until the very end of the day. She had expressed her concern several times about her father’s deteriorating health. The leader of the French far-right movement has “no immediate plans to react publicly to her death,” her entourage told Le Monde.
