Marine Le Pen reacts to the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen with a message without political reference

POLITICS – She greeted the father, before the politician. This Wednesday, January 8, the day after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, his daughter Marine Le Pen paid him a personal and above all apolitical tribute, while relations between the two have experienced ups and downs since she had taken over the presidency of the party.

The leader of the RN learned of the death of her father on the plane which brought her back to Paris and had not spoken since. In a message with a very personal tone, she alluded to the very poor health of Jean-Marie Le Pen and his gradual withdrawal from public life. “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. » His message ends with a reference to his father’s passion for the sea.

On the other hand, not the slightest mention of the political career of the co-founder of the far-right party and who contributed to establishing it in the French landscape, particularly from 2002 and his surprise score in the first round of the presidential election.

Nor to their differences, visible from 2011 after the accession of Marine Le Pen to the head of the party. In 2014, Jean-Marie Le Pen, honorary president of the party, attacked artists committed against the FN, saying in particular about the singer Patrick Bruel, of Jewish faith: “We’ll make a batch next time!” ». His daughter then condemned a “political fault ». A year later, the founder of the FN was excluded from the party by the executive office. Their relations then warmed up from 2018, but Marine Le Pen has rarely spoken on this subject.

Funerals “in family privacy”

The funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen will take place on Saturday in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan), said the vice-president of the National Rally Louis Aliot. 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.

The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen gave rise to festive gatherings of opponents of the far right almost everywhere in France. But the setting of Trinité-sur-Mer should remain conducive to meditation, said Louis Aliot. “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. The Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau condemned Tuesday evening “shameful scenes of jubilation”.

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