Marine Le Pen lost her father Jean-Marie Le Pen. The former leader of the National Front, who passed the torch to his daughter, died at the age of 96 this Tuesday, January 7, 2025. It was the family who announced the news to AFP. And Marine Le Pen is undoubtedly one of the last to have known it.
Jean-Marie Le Pen had been hospitalized for several weeks after experiencing health problems. This Tuesday, January 7, 2025, the former leader of the National Front died at the age of 96 in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), in an establishment where he had been admitted as his family announced AFP. He leaves behind his wife Jany and three children Marie-Caroline, Yann and Marinethe heiress to whom he entrusted the reins of the National Front upon his departure. “Jean-Marie Le Pen, surrounded by his family, was called back to God this Tuesday at 12:00 p.m.“, his family said in a statement sent to AFP.
Marine Le Pen was not one of the relatives who surrounded Jean-Marie Le Pen in his last moments. A few days ago, she flew to Mayotte, where a cyclone struck and caused many victims. She was then on the return journey. So it’s on the plane, during a technical stopover in Nairobi, Kenya, as indicated by a BFMTV journalist, that Marine Le Pen learned the news after all the journalists present alongside him. A “special moment” far from the family intimacy privileged for such moments.
“We left Mayotte this morning. We had a technical climb planned in Nairobi, Kenya. And it was during this technical stopover that we journalists turned our phones back on and it was at that moment that we became aware of this alert from the France-Presse agency, which alerted of the disappearance by Jean-Marie Le Pen”, says journalist Sophie Dupont before continuing: “We asked Marine Le Pen’s press secretary if he confirmed this information, he was not aware of it and that’s when he got up and headed towards the headquarters of Marine Le Pen to announce the disappearance of her father.”
Marine Le Pen surrounded despite the circumstances
After reading the information, Marine Le Pen “isolated herself at the front of the plane to make phone calls, presumably to her family” before returning to his seat next to which was Louis Aliot, his ex-companion, and other relatives. Still according to the same journalist Sophie Dupont, on board the same plane which transported Marine Le Pen from Mayotte to Paris, the former president of the National Rally party returned to her place. She should land in Paris at the very end of the evening,”around 11-11:30 p.m.”
Last December, while Marine Le Pen attended her trial and listened to the prosecution’s requisitions against her, she revealed the hospitalization of his father Jean-Marie Le Pen. “She went back and forth between her courtrooms and the corridor of this courthouse where she checked on her family, surrounded by her loved ones” recalled the BFMTV journalist.
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