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If Marine Le Pen did not speak this Tuesday, January 7, her lieutenants preferred to forget the most embarrassing aspects of the founder of the FN.
France almost lost two Le Pens in one day. Traveling on Tuesday morning in Mayotte, the leader of the National Rally (RN) was leaving Grande-Terre aboard a barge when another boat hit hers. She “happened very very quickly, it was inevitable, it hit quite hard”recounts the miracle to the Mayotte la 1ère channel, which adds: “We were lucky.” Marine Le Pen emerged unscathed but five minor injuries had to be transported to hospital. A few hours later, another shock. Stopover in Nairobi, on the way back to the metropolis, the far-right MP learned of the death of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, at the age of 96… through the mouths of journalists, who accompany, and themselves discovered the news through an AFP dispatch. “There was astonishment in the teams”one of them tells France Info. It is in fact Philippe Olivier, special advisor to the frontist leader and husband of
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