The day after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen at the age of 96, France 5 announced, in a press release published this Wednesday, January 8, 2025, that it was canceling its bonus for this Sunday, January 12. “Due to this news“, the public channel will offer that day at 9:10 p.m. “Jean-Marie Le Pen: At the extreme”, a new documentary series produced by Raphaël Tresanini and Jean-Pierre Canet which “offers a unique dive into the intimacy of the ‘menhir’.” “Based on his last extensive interview, exclusive testimonies from his close entourage and hitherto little-known archives, this series brings to the fore a dual character: on stage, a political animal with fascistic overtones who lays the foundations of national-populism modern ; behind the scenes, a businessman, a hedonist obsessed with success and fortune”, describes France Télévisions.
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The last long interview with Jean-Marie Le Pen
“Ten years after his forced withdrawal from political life, this portrait in three acts sheds new light on the impact of Jean-Marie Le Pen on French society and its political history“, summarizes the public group again. In episode 1, “The Opportunist”, the documentary series tells how, “in the wake of May 68, Jean-Marie Le Pen, former youngest deputy in France who became ghost of the Fourth Republic, seized the opportunity offered to him by Ordre Nouveau“.
“This small violent group, financed by those nostalgic for Mussolini, is looking for a ‘presentable’ figure to carry its political ambitions. Le Pen seizes the nascent movement, builds his own network and, guided by shadowy ideologues, lays the foundations of a new doctrine: national populism“. Episode 2 will particularly deal with the “populist” dimension of Jean-Marie Le Pen. The last episode, “The die-hard”, will finally return to his qualification for the second round of the election presidential election in 2002 and his ouster from the party by his heir, Marine Le Pen.
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Respectively scheduled at 9:05 p.m. and 10:55 p.m. before the France 5 press release, the documentaries “Hitler-Stalin, the clash of tyrants” and “Lorenz and Marlena, chronicle of love at war” will be rescheduled later. The first of them has already been canceled for the first time on Sunday December 15, 2024 after the fall of the Bashar El Assad regime in Syria.
Also note: Public Senate is offering this Wednesday January 8 at 5 p.m. “Le Pen, the eternal fight”, a documentary by Thomas Raguet which shows behind the scenes of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s last electoral campaign in Provence Alpes Côte d’ Azur, during the 2010 regionals. The film will also be broadcast on TNT channel 13 on Saturday January 11 at 12:40 a.m.
