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Death of Jean-Marie Le Pen: ceremony in family privacy, security system… everything you need to know about the funeral taking place this Saturday

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The funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front and controversial figure of the French far right will take place this Saturday, January 11 in La Trinité-sur-Mer, in . This is how the ceremony will take place.

A figure of the French extreme right died on January 7 in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine). The funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen will be celebrated this Saturday, January 11.

Funerals at Trinité-sur-Mer

The family has announced that the funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen will take place in his native town of Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan). Jean-Marie Le Pen was born there in 1928 and still owned a house in this small town of barely 1,700 inhabitants.

In a press release published Thursday January 10, Yves Normand, mayor (without label) of the Breton commune, explains that “far from his national notoriety, he liked to enjoy his house here with his friends and family, in the privacy and discretion”, before adding: “it is the Trinitain of heart that the town welcomes today in his final resting place.”

Specifically, the funeral will begin at 2:30 p.m. with a funeral mass at St. Joseph Church, near where he was born. He will then be buried in the Trinité-sur-Mer cemetery in the family vault where his father Jean and his mother Marie already rest.

In the “strict privacy of the family”

“They will be held in the strictest family privacy” said those close to Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Only a few friends, certain family members and elected officials were allowed to take part. In total, the Saint-Joseph church cannot accommodate more than 200 people, while no public area has been set up in front of the Trinité-sur-Mer cemetery.

An extensive security system

On site, the village is no busier than usual, the local residents note, apart from a few metal barriers and a decree prohibiting traffic and parking around the Saint-Joseph church.

To avoid demonstrations like those at Place de la République in and other cities in , the prefect of Morbihan Pascal Bolot preferred to take the lead, by issuing an order prohibiting demonstrations on Saturday.

The prefecture cites “the risks of disruptions and counter-demonstrations likely to provoke clashes between antagonistic movements with diametrically opposed ideologies and regularly inciting violence.” She also announced the dispatch of around a hundred law enforcement officers, including a mobile gendarmerie squadron, to prevent excesses.

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