Jean-Marie Le Pen was filmed in the company of musicians belonging to a neo-Nazi rock group. A musical session that his daughter, Marine Le Pen, would have done well without.
Among the Le Pens we have a sense of timing. This Monday, September 30, when the trial of the parliamentary assistants of the RN (formerly FN) has just opened, the co-founder of the far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, appeared in a video alongside musicians from a neo-Nazi rock band called Return Match.
The images which show Jean-Marie Le Pen, smiling, singing and taking a break date, according to Médiapart which broadcast the video this Monday afternoon, from Saturday September 28, just two days before the opening of the trial in which, several party executives, including his daughter, Marine Le Pen, and himself, are suspected of having participated in a system of fictitious jobs in the European Parliament.
In the images, we can see the members of the group as well as Jean-Marie Le Pen, hand on heart, singing a song “very popular with those nostalgic for the Ancien Régime”, specifies the Huffington post. Before showing the founder of the FN listening to a song written for him, and repeating some of his words. “I’m going to make you run redhead, I’m going to catch you, you won’t go very far” or even “Jeanne, help!” can be heard in the video of just over a minute.
Marine Le Pen announces filing a complaint
While she seemed to discover like everyone else the images of her father accompanied by several people suspected of being neo-Nazis, Marine Le Pen assured Mediapart that she was going to file a complaint for “abuse of weakness” against the music group which, according to her, took advantage of the state of health of Jean-Marie Le Pen. The complaint will also be filed “against the people who allowed these musicians to return to the latter’s home”.
At 96 years old and although accompanied by a cane, Jean-Marie Le Pen seems in good shape in these images, he who is exempt from appearing in court in the context of the affair of the FN parliamentary assistants, due to his state of health. He “gets up at 4 p.m., walks a little on the arm of his caregiver in the garden of La Bonbonnière […] but it does not go beyond that,” the newspaper said. The World about his absence during the trial.