Nearly twenty-four hours after the announcement of the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, his daughter Marine Le Pen commented on the disappearance of the co-founder of the National Front, Wednesday January 8, in a message on the social network X. “A venerable age had taken the warrior but had given us back our father. Death has come to take it back from us. Many people he loves are waiting for him up there. Many people who love him are mourning him down here. Good winds, good seas, Dad! »wrote the leader of the National Rally (RN) deputies in the Assembly.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, figure of the French extreme right and present in the second round of the 2002 presidential election, died Tuesday at the age of 96 in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), in an establishment where he had been admitted several weeks ago.
“Judgment of History”
His funeral will take place on Saturday in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan), the vice-president of the RN, Louis Aliot, said on Wednesday. The ceremony will be held “in family privacy”said Marine Le Pen’s former companion on TF1. Jean-Marie Le Pen had expressed in the past the wish to be buried in the family vault in La Trinité-sur-Mer.
This framework should prove conducive to meditation, said Mr. Aliot, despite demonstrations by opponents in several cities on Tuesday evening to celebrate the death of the far-right tribune. “They are not going to come and demonstrate at a funeral. And if they do, I suppose the state will make sure to keep them away.”declared the mayor of Perpignan, who also confirmed that Mme Le Pen had learned of the death of his father through the press when returning from a trip to Mayotte.
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There have been numerous reactions to the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen since Tuesday. “His role in public life (…) now falls to the judgment of history”simply wrote the Elysée in a press release. The Prime Minister, François Bayrou, has attracted criticism for having only described “controversies” the multiple scandals which marked the career of the co-founder of the National Front.
“For the National Rally, he will remain the one who, in the storms, held in his hands the little flickering flame of the French nation”wrote the RN for its part in a press release, while the leader of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, estimated that if “the fight against the man is over, the fight against the hatred, racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism that he spread continues.”
