his family gathers in La Trinité-sur-Mer for his funeral

Jean-Marie Le Pen died on Tuesday January 7 at the age of 96. He is buried this Saturday January 11 in Morbihan.

The family of Jean-Marie Le Pen, including his daughter Marine Le Pen, arrived this Saturday, January 11 at the cemetery of La Trinité-sur-Mer, in Morbihan, for his funeral, after his death on Tuesday at the age of 96.

The funeral begins at 2:30 p.m. in the former far-right leader’s hometown where there is a family grave. Around 200 people will be able to attend. Among them, the former president of the National Rally Marine Le Pen and her sisters Marie-Caroline and Yann.

Another ceremony, “religious and of homage”, will take place Thursday January 16 at 11 a.m. in the Notre Dame du Val-de-Grâce church in Paris attached to the diocese of the French Armies. It will be open to the public.

Many law enforcement officers deployed

For this burial under high security, around a hundred law enforcement officers were deployed in the town.

Friday, the prefect of Morbihan Pascal Bolot also issued an order prohibiting demonstrations in the town, given that “the political personality of the deceased” was “likely to attract, on the sidelines of the religious ceremony and the burial , a large crowd composed of both sympathizers but also possibly opponents.

The prefecture justifies its order by “the risks of disturbances and counter-demonstrations likely to provoke clashes between antagonistic movements with diametrically opposed ideologies and regularly inciting violence”.

Founder of the FN

A provocative tribune, obsessed with immigration and Jews, Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the National Front (which became the National Rally) in 1972. He was condemned for several of his statements on the Second World War, and for homophobic insults. .

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.

This veteran of Indochina then returned to Algeria, where he will be accused of torture – something he has always contested. He reached the second round of the presidential election, losing his duel against Jacques Chirac in 2002.