From the Italian neofascist Giorgio Almirante (1914-1988), Jean-Marie Le Pen took up the tricolor flame and admired the funeral: a ceremony in the heart of Rome bringing together thousands of people nostalgic for Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the coffin splitting the arms outstretched to enter a church in Piazza Navona, in Rome, where all the representatives of the Italian politics, up to the communists. The far-right leader, with his inordinate ego, would have liked such a unanimous and grandiose tribute, but he did not believe in it. “certainly not”as he said to Inrockuptibles in 2012, aware of its status as “devil of the Republic”.
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In recent weeks, the few Lepenists daring to raise the subject tended towards a funeral in the strictest privacy, which would have the double advantage of avoiding the tug of war among elected officials and the rallying of the most radical, whom Marine Le Pen prefers to keep at a distance. On Tuesday, however, there was talk, among those around the family, of the organization of a second stage of an open religious ceremony in Paris.
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