“Good winds, good seas, Papa!” Almost twenty-four hours after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen at the age of 96, his daughter Marine Le Pen reacted for the first time this Wednesday, January 8 on the social network X. “A lot of people he loves are waiting for him up there. Many people who love him are mourning him here on earth.writes the head of RN deputies in the National Assembly. In her short message, the elected representative from Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais) also returns in a few words to the estrangement between the two former headliners of the far-right party and to their reunion in 2018: “A venerable age had taken the warrior but had given us back our father. Death has come to take it back from us.”
Tuesday, it was on the way back from her trip to Mayotte that the former RN presidential candidate learned of the disappearance of her father, through the press. “We were on the plane, in Nairobi where we made a technical stopover, and it was when we landed” in the capital of Kenya “that the journalists who were present on the flight informed us of the death”, party vice-president Louis Aliot said this Wednesday on TF1.
On the first channel, the mayor of Perpignan also confirmed that the funeral of the founder of the National Front will take place on Saturday in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan). The ceremony will be held “in family privacy”said Marine Le Pen’s former companion on TF1. The former far-right leader had expressed in the past the wish to be buried in the family vault in La Trinité-sur-Mer.
The Le Pens remain linked to the Breton town, where the leader of the RN deputies often spends her summer vacations in the family home. A setting which should remain conducive to contemplation, said Louis Aliot, despite the demonstrations by opponents in several cities on Tuesday evening to celebrate the death of the former far-right tribune with multiple convictions. “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.
-Updated at 11 a.m. with the reaction of Marine Le Pen.
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