Published on 07/01/2025 21:15
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Death of Jean-Marie Le Pen: a life on the far right
Death of Jean-Marie Le Pen: a life on the far right
(France 2)
Jean-Marie Le Pen died on Tuesday January 7, at the age of 96. Co-founder of the National Front, which became the National Rally, he occupied the political scene for nearly 70 years.
Jean-Marie Le Pen died on Tuesday, October 7, at the age of 96 in an establishment in Hauts-de-Seine. On social networks, Jordan Bardella praised a politician who, according to him, “has always served France”. History will remember the thunderclap of 2002, when Jean-Marie Le Pen, a figure of the extreme right, reached the second round of the presidential election. Across France, millions of French people demonstrated against the ideas of the National Front.
Jean-Marie Le Pen entered politics at the age of 27 alongside the nationalist Pierre Poujade. At the same time, he led a military career. Engaged in Indochina then in Algeria, he claimed to have practiced torture before retracting. Back in France, he founded the National Front (FN) with militiamen like the Waffen-SS Pierre Bousquet. Their obsession: immigration. In the 1980s, thanks to proportional representation, the FN obtained 35 seats in the National Assembly. Jean-Marie Le Pen then made a name and a reputation, that of a provocateur adept at anti-Semitic excesses. On the plane returning from Mayotte, her daughter, Marine Le Pen, has not yet reacted publicly.
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