Jean-Marie Le Pen died at the age of 96 on Tuesday.
His wife, Jany Le Pen, reacted on TF1.
A little earlier in the day, his daughter Marie-Caroline Le Pen and his granddaughter Marion Maréchal paid tribute to him on social networks.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, figure of the French far right, is dead
Surrounded by his daughters, Yann and Marie-Caroline Le Pen, and by three of his grandchildren, Jean-Marie Le Pen died this Tuesday, January 7 around noon in a nursing home in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), where he had been hospitalized for several weeks. His wife, Jany Le Pen, very moved by the disappearance of her husband, reacted to TF1. “It’s over. He’s such a fantastic man that I wish we knew a little more about him.”she declared on our microphone.
A little earlier in the day, Marie-Caroline Le Pen, daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen and former candidate in the legislative elections, was the first in the family to react to the announcement of his death. “You will not be able to console me for this sorrow. To God, Papa”she published on the social network
“I will not abandon the mission”
“Leave alone, I will not abandon the mission”, for his part greeted Jean-Marie Le Pen’s granddaughter, Marion Maréchal, this Tuesday. “You have inspired, throughout your life, hundreds of thousands of vocations. You have allowed, for a long time alone against everyone, that millions of French people are once again proud of themselves and their country. Thank you for everything that”, wrote again in a message published on X the European deputy, niece of Marine Le Pen.
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For her part, Marine Le Pen, who returned from a trip to Mayotte, was on a stopover in Kenya when she learned of the death of her father. It was his press officer who announced it to him. The leader of the National Rally deputies is on her way to Paris, where her plane should land on the evening of this Tuesday.
