Jean-Marie Le Pen died at 96. The man who liked to be called the Menhir, in reference to his Breton origins, led a very long political career on the far right lasting almost 70 years. Little is known, but he maintained a special relationship with Belgium, a relationship that could be described as historic.
Historic, not in the sense that it was memorable, but because it was marked by history. One of his models, if not THE model of Le Pen, was none other than Léon Degrelle, the leader of the collaboration in Belgium, who ended the Second World War as an SS general, decorated by Hitler himself.
In an interview given to TF1 in 1992 from Spain, where he fled in 1945, the former head of Rex, sentenced to death in Belgium, declared about Le Pen: “We are old friends, we often talk on the phone, I try to guide him. As for Hitler, he admires him a lot. I gave him some revenue to ensure the financing of his party, such as charging entry to his meetings. He is the greatest French orator, and in politics it is important. He is wonderfully flexible and humorous, he transmits his waves, that’s what makes him successful, he is remarkable“.
And the Belgian Nazi leader, who, as a young man, also inflamed the crowds, added: “The Lepenist movement is a French elite. It is the great mistake of the left to reduce the National Front to a miserable portion of the French people“.
In the same show, Jean-Marie Le Pen described Degrelle as “historical monument“and when the TF1 journalist asked him if they were really friends, Le Pen evaded the question by answering”We’re not in Nuremberg here!“Provocative reference to the trial of the Nazi leaders after the war. Beyond the ranting and boasting of Degrelle, who claimed to be, among other things, the model of Tintin, there was a real ideological convergence between Degrelle and Le Pen, particularly on the anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.
The Jew is an exhibitionist
Thus, in 1987, Le Pen described the gas chambers as “story details“, a distant echo of a statement by Léon Degrelle. I quote: “The destruction of the Jews of Europe is a lie that the Jews exploit, because the Jew is an exhibitionist“. Furthermore, Le Pen always kept an eye on Belgium, but his real ally in the Kingdom was not the Belgian National Front which he despised, but the Vlaams Blok. Thus, representatives of the Flemish party attended regularly at his meetings, in 2007, in one of them, I met Filp Dewinter, who admired Le Pen, because like his so-called friend, Jean-Marie Le Pen believed in victory. of the far right, not only in France, but throughout Europe.
Degrelle Léon Degrelle Rex Jean-Marie Lepen
