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The disappearance of Jean-Marie Le Pen, this Tuesday, January 7, gave rise to several tributes from his clan, including one published by his son-in-law Philippe Olivier on X and which caused a friend of Marine Le Pen to react.
After his wife Marie-Caroline Le Pen, Philippe Olivier, in turn, wanted to pay tribute to his father-in-law, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died this Tuesday, January 7 at the age of 96. On X, the MEP paid tribute to the memory of a man “extraordinary, of fight and heart, more human than the caricatures that some wanted to make of him”. “He loved people and people, France and life. We will see how, on many subjects, he was right”said the politician, who officially joined the Le Pen family in 1999.
A close friend of his sister-in-law, Marine Le Pen, responded to this message by declaring that the patriarch did not carry him in his heart. “He hated you. You know that very well, you bad guy. He dreamed of beating your face, his old age prevented him from doing so”wrote Frédéric Chatillon, former head of the GUD and ex-father-in-law of Jordan Bardella. A shadowy man and unofficial communications advisor to the president of the National Rally parliamentary group, Frédéric Chatillon was convicted of “fraud” in the party campaign financing affair in 2011.
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Philippe Olivier, a former traitor of the National Front
Philippe Olivier is a very close advisor to Marine Le Pen, appointed director of the unit “ideas and image” of the National Rally. “She doesn’t have two main lieutenants, she only has one, it’s Philippe Olivier”estimated in 2023 Senator Stéphane Ravier, who moved from Rally to Reconquest. “She doesn’t have trust only in him elle only listen to him. »
This does not prevent the fact that it has long been persona non grata within the far-right party. An FN activist since 1979, he took up the cause, with his wife Marie Caroline, for Bruno Mégret in 1998, at a time when the FN was torn apart internally between the two camps. He then approached Philippe de Villiers. In 2012, he ran for the legislative elections against the FN candidate, with the support of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. It was only in 2015 that Philippe Olivier returned to the National Front, directly as an advisor to Marine Le Pen.
