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This Tuesday, January 7, after the announcement of the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, at the age of 96, François Bayrou paid tribute to him on politicians.
Hospitalized for several weeks, this Tuesday, January 7, Jean-Marie Le Pen took his last breath at the age of 96. Sad news for his family, and more particularly for his daughter, Marine Le Pen who was not at the politician’s bedside during his last moments. Following the announcement of his death, tributes and reactions from the political sphere followed one another on social networks. On his X account, François Bayrou, Prime Minister since December 13, 2024, declared: “Beyond the controversies which were his favorite weapon and the necessary confrontations on the merits, JM Le Pen will have been a figure in French political life. We knew, fighting him, what a fighter he was.”
A statement that did not fail to make many politicians jump. And for good reason, some did not appreciate that Emmanuel Macron’s right arm minimized the racist, homophobic or even anti-Semitic declarations of Jany’s husband with simple “controversies”. “Pathetic. It is not a question of controversies, but of convictions for racist, anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial remarks.protests Ian Brossat on X. For her part, Manon Aubry also revolts against the comments of François Bayrou on the social network: “He was not just “a figure in French political life” as François Bayrou reacts. Respect for the deceased should not lead to blindness along the way. Jean-Marie Le Pen was a notorious racist and anti-Semite, worshiper of Pétain and a torturer in Algeria. The journalist Jérôme Godefroy does not hide his amazement either. “The Prime Minister’s message about Jean-Marie Le Pen is embarrassing”he simply writes on X.
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After Jordan Bardella’s tribute, it was then his eldest daughter, Marie-Caroline who broke the silence, a few hours after the announcement of her disappearance. “You will not be able to console me for this sorrow. To God Papa”, she wrote in the caption of a tender photo of her as a child in her father’s arms. For the moment, neither Yann, nor Marine Le Pen or even Marion Maréchal, the other women in his life, have spoken publicly.
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