A mass in tribute to Jean-Marie Le Pen organized Thursday in Nice

A mass in tribute to Jean-Marie Le Pen will be celebrated Thursday January 16 in the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Le Vœu church, in Nice, we learned Tuesday afternoon Le Figaro with the parish, confirming information from BFM Côte d’Azur. This ceremony, which will begin at 3 p.m., was organized at the initiative of Josiane Pastorel, a former National Front activist.

Among the local political figures, only Benoît Kandel, the head of the Nice section of the National Rally, has so far confirmed his presence. We therefore do not know whether the three deputies (RN) from Alpes-Maritimes Alexandra Masson, Bryan Masson and Lionel Tivoli will make the trip. Same question regarding the former mayor of Nice, Jacques Peyrat, brother-in-arms of “Menhir” during the Indochina War, then in the political arena. The Church of the Vow insists that this is in no way a political event. “There will be no speeches, simply an ordinary mass”we are told.

Close links with the Côte d’Azur

Founder of the flame party in 1972, Jean-Marie Le Pen died on January 7 at the age of 96. He was buried in family privacy in the cemetery of his hometown of Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan) on the afternoon of January 11. The man his opponents were accustomed to nickname “The Devil of the Republic” had established close ties with the Côte d’Azur over the course of his long political career. In addition to his friendship with some prominent local elected officials, he himself tried (in vain) to seize, in 1993, the 3^e constituency of Alpes-Maritimes, north of Nice.