the far right gathered for the public tribute organized in Paris

The entire far right gathered on Thursday for a final ceremony in tribute to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the co-founder of the National Front. After his funeral on Saturday in Brittany, a ceremony open to the public was organized at the Val-de-Grâce church in Paris.

A dense crowd, including a good part of the French far right, gathered Thursday, January 16, to pay a final tribute to the founder of the National Front Jean-Marie Le Pen, in and outside the Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce, in the 5th arrondissement in Paris.

Died on January 7 at the age of 96, the finalist in the 2002 presidential election was buried on Saturday in the cemetery of his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan) after a mass celebrated in the strictest privacy family. His three daughters, Marie-Caroline, Yann and Marine Le Pen, however, wanted to organize another tribute, in Paris, this one open to the public.

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The historian specializing in the far right Jean-Yves Camus was also in the church.

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