Several opponents of Jean-Marie Le Pen gathered Tuesday evening in certain cities in France to celebrate the death of the former nationalist figure.
The images disturbed well beyond just the National Rally (RN). A few hours after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, several opponents of the former nationalist figure gathered Tuesday evening in several cities in France (Paris, Lyon and Marseille) to celebrate the news. Between alcohol, fireworks and joyful dancing, these festivities – organized by the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) and several far-left collectives – split the political class in two.
If the leader of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot did not say “shocked” by this “youth who continue to annoy the National Front” (ex-RN) on this day of commemorations of the attack which targeted Charlie hebdo in 2015, the government preferred to denounce this behavior. On the one hand, his spokesperson Sophie Primas echoed the words of Jean-Marie Le Pen on the death of Jacques Chirac in September 2019: “Even dead, the enemy has the right to respect”. On the other hand, Bruno Retailleau openly denounced “scenes of shameful jubilation”. “Nothing justifies dancing on a corpse”jeered the Minister of the Interior.
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While the flame party immediately mocked, through the voice of its first vice-president Louis Aliot, a “systematic intolerance” of the left whose attitude “don’t surprise him”the family of the co-founder of the FN had not yet said anything on the subject. Until this Thursday. On the social network “Between champagne and Palestinian flags, those who celebrated the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen on January 7 are the same ones who danced on October 7.” A clear reference to the ambiguities – even the absence of condemnation – of a part of the left vis-à-vis Hamas, a terrorist movement which launched an unprecedented attack on Israel fifteen months ago.
Based on this analysis, one of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s two political heirs then associated these celebrations with an ecosystem “Islamo-leftist”which according to her is “the leaven of the decivilization of France”. “As proof, even their calls for murder refer to Islamist methods”pointed out the MEP, who echoed the chants of part of the crowds, broadcast on social networks, advocating the deaths of Jordan Bardella or Éric Zemmour.
