Jean-Marie Le Pen died at the age of 96 on Tuesday January 7. On X, his granddaughter and political heir, Marion Maréchal, assured the patriarch that he could leave in peace, promising: “I will not abandon the mission.”
23:52 – “Faced with mourning, decency imposes discretion and restraint”: Éric Ciotti is moved by the scenes of jubilation
END OF LIVE – While scenes of jubilation linked to the announcement of the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen are seen in Paris, Lyon and Marseille this evening, Éric Ciotti, ally of National gathering, did not fail to be moved by such a spectacle. “The images that come back to us from the Place de la République are nauseating,” he judges on death of a man, the extreme left shows its true face, that of hatred, resentment and inhumanity.”
23:41 – Back in France, Marine Le Pen has still not reacted
On the plane returning from Mayotte when the death of her father was announced, Marine Le Pen learned the news after the journalists. Close to his late father, the figure of the National Rally landed at the very end of the evening at Charles de Gaulle airport. She has not yet commented on the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen.
23:35 – What did Jean-Marie Le Pen die of?
Jean-Marie Le Pen died at the age of 96 this Tuesday, January 7, his family announced to AFP. Already in March 2022, he was hospitalized after having a “mild form of stroke”. Earlier, his condition was not better; he had been very weakened by the flu and showed a general state of fatigue. After a “slight heart attack” in 2023, the father of Marine Le Pen, five times candidate for the Élysée, was admitted to hospital in November 2024 to carry out a battery of tests, according to information communicated by his entourage to France Televisions. According to several of his relatives, since this heart attack, his general health had declined significantly.
23:22 – Respect for family mourning, “on the other hand”…: the socialist Olivier Faure marks his opposition
Recognizing that it is “legitimate to respect the mourning of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s family”, Olivier Faure quickly made a point of recalling his opposition to the ideas defended by Jean-Marie Le Pen on X, Tuesday evening. “On the other hand, there is no kindness to be given to the past of a man who tortured in Algeria and who thought that the gas chambers were a detail of history. Even death does not authorize the trivialization of “acts or comments which defied the law and contradicted the values of the Republic Yesterday, today and tomorrow, we will face the ideas of the extreme right”, insisted the socialist, adopting a tone similar to other political figures. left.
22:48 – Bruno Retailleau deplores the scenes of jubilation after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen
While French people are showing their joy in Paris and even in Lyon after the announcement of the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen this Tuesday, the Minister of the Interior regretted this behavior. “Nothing, absolutely nothing justifies dancing on a corpse,” said Bruno Retailleau on X, denouncing “simply shameful scenes of jubilation”.
22:23 – Marie-Caroline Le Pen expresses her grief
On X, one of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughters, Marie-Caroline, paid tribute to her father. Posting a photo of herself as a little girl in the arms of the patriarch on a boat, she confided: “You will not be able to console me for this sorrow.”
9:49 p.m. – In Paris and Lyon, demonstrators gathered to celebrate the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen
Place de la République in Paris, many demonstrators gathered to celebrate the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen. Confetti, smoke bombs and even champagne for some. Similar scenes are also seen in Lyon.
21:22 – Crif’s warning after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen
President of Crif, Yonathan Arfi estimated this Tuesday that the death of the founder of the National Front “should not mark the beginning of his rehabilitation”. And to recall on
20:44 – “He was not Charlie”: Philippe Val, co-founder of Charlie Hebdo reacts to the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen
On this day of commemoration of the attack on Charlie Hebdo which occurred ten years ago, one of the founders of the satirical weekly was invited to the BFMTV set. The opportunity to react to the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen. “He was not Charlie and we were not Le Pen, everyone at home,” said Philippe Val.
20:23 – The first reaction of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s widow
Questioned by BFMTV, Jany Le Pen, the widow of Jean-Marie Le Pen, confided her condition after the death of her husband. “I feel very… very not well. But, I’m going to try to learn how to live without him again,” she said.
19:47 – Jean-Marie Le Pen buried Saturday in La Trinité-sur-Mer
According to West Francethe funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen should be held on Saturday January 11, 2025, at 2:30 p.m., at the church of Saint-Joseph in La Trinité-sur-Mer, a small town in Morbihan where Jean-Marie Le Pen was born in 1928 .
19:24 – “Leave peacefully, I will not abandon the mission”: Marion Maréchal pays tribute to Jean-Marie Le Pen
In a long post published on X, Marion Maréchal paid tribute to her grandfather. “Daddy, don’t worry: the mission you entrusted to me thirteen years ago with your letter, I have not forgotten it”, begins the one who further assures that the patriarch can leave “peacefully” because she “don’t give up[ra] not the mission”. In her message, the political heiress of Jean-Marie Le Pen also attacks her grandfather’s opponents. “The mediocre and the dishonest will reduce you to a vile provocateur. Those who knew you know the extraordinary man that you were,” she says, describing Jean-Marie Le Pen as a “leader,” a “soldier,” a “literate man” or even a “literate man.” visionary”.
18:51 – “A monument of French political life disappears”, for Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
“Jean Marie Le Pen is dead. A monument of French political life disappears. Beyond the controversies, he will have marked his time with the strength and constancy of his national convictions. Affectionate thoughts to his daughters and to all those who support him liked it”, indicates Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of Stand up France on X.
18:43 – For Louis Boyard, Jean-Marie Le Pen “does not deserve any tribute”
“Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. He deserves no tribute. All his life he spat on exiles, women, Muslim, Jewish, LGBT people. Our thoughts must go to the people he hated. Let’s continue the fight so that his ideology follows him to his grave”, declared LFI deputy Louis Boyard on X, after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, this Tuesday, January 7 at the age of 96.
18:22 – Jean-Marie Le Pen recognized in his daughter a “dictatorial side”
In his memoirs, Jean-Marie Le Pen was very critical at the end of his life. He believed that the one who succeeded him at the head of the FN (now National Rally) in 2011, Marine Le Pen, had “no confidence in herself”. “This explains his faults. His dictatorial side.” And if he conceded to her “certain qualities for doing politics. Guts, drive, repartee”, the co-founder of the National Front admitted in “Tribun du peuple” that she was “not (his) choice” to succeed him. He also believed that she “could have won” the 2017 presidential election, before wondering: “With a good debate and a terrorist disaster the week before the election, she could perhaps have won. But for what purpose? ? With which staff? (…) Marine’s failure was perhaps providential”, he conceded.
