Comments on Patrick Bruel and “the batch”
In 2014, Jean-Marie Le Pen caused a huge scandal following a video published by the Front National on its website. In the latter, which was unpublished a few hours later from the FN website, the honorary president and founding member of the FN attacked artists who criticized his political party such as Guy Bedos, Madonna and Yannick Noah. “To have beautiful roses, it is necessary to put manure on the feet. So old Bidoche, old Maldonna participated in the exercise orally”, indicated Jean-Marie Le Pen in this interview where the name of Patrick Bruel is also reported to him. To which Jean-Marie Le Pen responds: “That doesn’t surprise me. Look, we’ll make a batch next time.” by alluding to the Jewish origin of Patrick Bruel who had decided to take legal action against Jean-Marie Le Pen. In 2021, the courts decided to acquit the founder of the FN who was then 93 years old.
With the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, a political monster disappears
Minister Durafour who becomes “Durafour-crematorium”
Just one year after the affair of the point of detail on the gas chambers, Jean-Marie Le Pen did it again by delivering a shocking pun towards Michel Durafour, then Minister of the Civil Service at the time. In response to Minister Michel Durafour, who criticized the policies of the FN and who asked voters to turn to the left and the Communist Party, Jean-Marie Le Pen nicknamed Minister Durafour by “Durafour-crematorium” during a speech before the National Front university assembly.
“Racist, colonialist, fascist”, “Figure of political life”, “He always served France”: shower of reactions after the death of Jean-Marie Lepen
“Monsignor Ebola”, Jean-Marie Le Pen’s solution to put an end to immigration
In December 2013, an “atypical” epidemic, because it was not controlled, appeared in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. This is the Ebola virus which will contaminate a huge number of people and officially kill 844 six months later. During a press lunch where he was with the FN mayor of Cogolin in the Var, Marc-Etienne Lansade detailed to Le Pen the issues that he was going to develop in his speech which were overpopulation and the “risk of submersion of France through immigration.
In response to this, Jean-Marie Le Pen, under the cameras, once again stood out by being optimistic in his own way and saying: “It is never too late, but it is far too late when even Monsignor Ebola can resolve this in three months.” Comments which were considered cynical and inhumane.
“Details of history”, violence, homosexuals, Muslims and Roma: the main condemnations and provocations of Jean-Marie Le Pen
Accusations of torture in Algeria
A former soldier, Le Pen was accused by anti-colonial activists of having participated in acts of torture during the Algerian War. Although he always denied it, these accusations followed him throughout his career.
“Racial inequality is a fact”
In 1996, during a National Front summer school in La Grande Motte, Jean-Marie Le Pen said he believed in racial inequality. “I believe in the inequality of races, yes of course, all history shows it, they do not have the same capacity nor the same level of historical evolution…”.
Jean-Marie Le Pen was also… the godfather of comedian Dieudonné’s daughter: here’s how and why
“I’ll make you run redhead! Faggot!”
On May 30, 1997, while he was president of the National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen went to Mantes-la-Jolie in Yvelines to support his daughter Marie-Caroline, a candidate for the legislative elections following the dissolution of the National Assembly decided by Jacques Chirac a few days earlier. On site, anti-FN activists welcome Jean-Marie Le Pen with shouts and banners. Particularly nervous, the president of the FN will be very aggressive with the crowd but also with Annette Peulvast-Bergeal, socialist mayor of the neighboring town of Mantes-la-Ville. “We’re sick of you, we’re sick of you!”screams Jean-MArie Le Pen who will not hesitate to pin the socialist against the wall who will have three days of ITT following this attack. While the crowd is getting worse, Jean-Marie Le Pen, surrounded by the police, does not hesitate to be threatening to the people around him. “To the extent that I am attacked, I have never been afraid of another man. Not even several!”he said, with a smile on his face in front of one of the only cameras present that day. The TV team present will also record this moment when Le Pen is ready to come to blows with an activist chased by his bodyguards: “I’m going to make you run, you’ll see the redhead over there. Eh ? Fag!”
A call for help from… Joan of Arc
Since 1988, Jean-Marie Le Pen decided to organize a parade in tribute to Joan of Arc. This “party” previously took place on May 8, but it fell on the same day as the second round of the presidential election. The founder of the FN therefore chose to bring the date forward by one week and that it would therefore be held on May 1, Labor Day. This date was also an opportunity for the FN to challenge the left on its own ground: social issues. On May 1, 2015, the year he lost the honorary presidency of the FN, Jean-Marie Le Pen organized an alternative ceremony during this annual celebration in memory of Joan of Arc, accusing the party, led by his daughter Marine, of betray your values. Next to the statue, Jean-Marie Le Pen will chant an iconic “Jeanne, help!”.
