Who cares if the one they define as “a scoundrel“is finally”died a beautiful death“. And what does it matter if this gathering ultimately has little political significance. The time was simply for sincere celebration, Tuesday evening in Marseille. After an appeal broadcast on social networks, a few minutes after the announcement of the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, several hundred people gathered in the Old Port, in a festive atmosphere.share a good time“, champagne under arm and party favors in hand, singing”Everyone hates Le Pen“.
“I’m just happy and I had to mark the occasionsays Marcel, 34 years old. To celebrate the death of an anti-Semite, a Holocaust denier and a torturer of the Algerian War. Some political representatives will feign respect for this man. We come to say that there was nothing respectable about him.“
“We promised to celebrate his death”
If in the very young crowd, Jean-Marie Le Pen is more of a “scarecrow of the far right“how many adversaries have been directly fought, all come to chant as well”the fight continues“.
“We’ve been waiting for him for years and we promised to celebrate his deathconfide Audrey and Delphine, in their fifties. And, even if this celebration takes place in a context where its nauseating and racist ideas have infused beyond the far right, expressing joy is also a militant act to remind us who our enemy is.“
A vision shared by Nico, 52, who came with his 18-year-old son to “celebrate the death of this old scoundrel“If for the son, Jean-Marie Le Pen is a character.”of the order of the story, which I have been hearing about since minot“, the father remembers”years of fighting“. “His ideas were in the minority 20 years ago, today they represent 40% in the ballot boxes, so we haven’t really won the battlehe regrets. But we must still rejoice this evening, without letting our guard down, especially against our daughter.”
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