“Jean-Marie Le Pen, surrounded by his family, was called back to God this Tuesday at 12 p.m.”. It is with this brief press release that the family of the founder of the National Front announced his death on Tuesday January 7. At the age of 96, he died in Garches in a palliative care unit, surrounded by his family. According to a close friend of Jean-Marie Le Pen who spoke to Le Parisien, “his situation has suddenly deteriorated” a few hours before.
“The day before yesterday he was still pretty well. Then he suddenly lost his breathing, following pulmonary edema,” said another member of the close entourage of the founder of the National Front. It was thousands of kilometers away that Marine Le Pen learned of her father’s death. On a stopover in Kenya after a trip to Mayotte, she was informed by journalists who had just received the family’s announcement.
Death of Jean-Marie Le Pen: the tribute of his daughter Marine
According to a person who was at her side, the National Rally MP isolated herself on the phone. Before returning “in his place, tears in my eyes, silent“. “His family is in shock. Even though we knew it was going to happen, we didn’t believe it. He always told us he was immortal! This (…)
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