Marine Le Pen’s tribute to her father

“Good winds, good seas, Dad! » Marine Le Pen paid tribute to her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died at the age of 96 on Tuesday January 7. In a brief message published on her social networks the next day, the one who succeeded her at the head of the nationalist party greeted the father rather than the political figure.

“A venerable age had taken the warrior but had given us back our father. Death has come to take it back from us”she writes on X, in a barely veiled reference to the sometimes electric relationship she had with her father. “A lot of people he loves are waiting for him up there. Many people who love him are mourning him here on earth,” she added soberly.

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A funeral “in family privacy”

Relations between the two National Front executives deteriorated at the time of the transfer of power at the head of the party, notably following the exclusion of Jean-Marie Le Pen from the party he founded in 2015. , sanctioned for having affirmed that Marshal Pétain was not “a traitor” and for having reiterated his comments on the gas chambers during the Second World War. Family ties had softened after Jean-Marie Le Pen’s departure from political life.

The leader of the RN deputies learned of the death of her father while she was returning from a trip to Mayotte. Jean-Marie Le Pen will be buried on Saturday January 11 in La Trinité-sur-Mer. A ceremony which will be held “in family privacy” made it knownon TF1, Louis Aliot, vice-president of the party and former companion of Marine Le Pen.