A mass is being organized in Paris this Thursday, January 16, a little over a week after the death of the far-right figure. Unlike last Saturday’s funeral, the event is open to the public.
A religious tribute is being organized this Thursday, January 16 at the Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce Church in Paris in honor of far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, a little over a week after his death . The ceremony began at 11 a.m.
This mass, decided by Marine Le Pen and her two sisters, is open to the public unlike the funeral which was held in the strictest family privacy last Saturday in Trinité-sur-mer (Morbihan), hometown of the co-founder of the Front national, which became National Rally.
Marine Le Pen will not speak during this ceremony, unlike her older sister Marie-Caroline, her niece Marion Maréchal as well as Louis Aliot, her ex-companion and current vice-president of the RN. Faithful among the faithful of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former MEP Marie-Christine Arnautu will also speak.
In addition to the members of the National Rally, such as its president Jordan Bardella or the deputy Thomas Ménage, all the groups of the extreme right are represented, including Marine Le Pen’s opponent, Éric Zemmour, but also Bruno Mégret, former number two of the FN who had broken with Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1998 or Carl Lang, also a dissident.
Marine Le Pen will “never forgive” herself for her exclusion from the FN
Author of numerous racist outbursts, Jean-Marie Le Pen has been convicted more than twenty times in his life, notably for contesting crimes against humanity and provoking racial hatred.
He was excluded from the National Front in 2015 after repeating his defense of Marshal Pétain and “maintaining” that the gas chambers during the Second World War were a “detail of history”. “I will never forgive myself for this decision,” Marine Le Pen explained to JDNews last Sunday.
Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the FN in 1972 alongside a former Waffen-SS, Pierre Bousquet, and gradually withdrew from political life from 2011, when his daughter Marine Le Pen took over. party presidency.
Elected deputy in 1956 under the Fourth Republic, he brought the French far right out of its marginality during a political career which marked the Fifth Republic. His main feat of arms was his second round during the 2002 presidential election, a shocking event for a large part of public opinion.
He died on January 7 in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), in a department where he had admitted several weeks previously.
