While Marine Le Pen was on a plane to France, her family announced the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen to AFP. Alexandre Chauveau, journalist in the political service of Europe 1, explains why the sisters of the leader of the RN deputies would have first communicated the information to the media. Listen to the excerpt again. You can react at 01.80.20.39.21.
Europe 1’s special envoy to Mayotte, Alexandre Chauveau, was on the same plane as Marine Le Pen when the leader of the RN deputies learned of the death of her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, at the age of 96 years old, via an alert from the AFP and not from his family directly. In the show Pascal Praud and youthe journalist in the political service of Europe 1 hypothesizes that Marine Le Pen’s sisters would have communicated this death to Agence France-Presse before warning the finalist of the last presidential election.
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“It was probably Marine Le Pen’s sisters who announced it to AFP. We thought that there would be no stopover in Kenya, and that the announcement of the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen was going to leak during the day. They preferred to take the lead by announcing it themselves to AFP, since Marine Le Pen was supposed to have no network between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m.,” he explains.
