Jean-Marie Le Pen died at the age of 96 on Tuesday January 7, his family announced to AFP. The RN paid tribute to its founder, but the other reactions are more measured and recall or invite us to combat the xenophobic ideas of the far-right man.
16:49 – “He had talent, scope and culture”, greets Guillaume Peltier
The vice-president of Reconquête and MEP Guillaume Peltier salutes the memory of a man “who was forbidden to say good things. And yet, he will forever be the first to have had the courage to alert our people to the painful dangers of immigration and the possible disappearance of our homeland Beyond the controversies and in the midst of so many petty politicians, appalling with their mediocrity, who think nothing and who say nothing, he had talent, talent. scale and culture: he was the tribune of the survival of the French people”, he said after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen at the age of 96.
He was one of those men about whom it was forbidden to speak well.
And yet, he will forever be the first to have had the courage to alert our people to the painful dangers of immigration and the possible disappearance of our homeland.
Beyond the controversies and… pic.twitter.com/v9ECfYwdel
— Guillaume Peltier (@G_Peltier) January 7, 2025
16:38 – Jean-Marie Le Pen had thought about his epitaph
Jean-Marie Le Pen told Le Parisien in 2018 that he was putting his affairs in order with a view to distributing his inheritance, feeling that he was aging and weakening. At the same time, he indicated that he knew what he wanted as an epitaph on his tomb. “At the Trinité-sur-Mer cemetery on the family grave, it may be a little daring but there would be a plaque where there would simply be Jean-Marie, with my date of birth and the date of my death”, he confided, judging that with his first name alone people would know who is buried here.
16:27 – Jean-Marie Le Pen “had seen everything and understood everything” according to Generation Z
Many far-right forces reacted to the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen and among them, the leader of Generation Z, the young branch of Eric Zemmour’s Reconquest party in the last presidential election. “Today we lose a great Frenchman. He had seen everything and understood everything, long before the others. Often alone against everyone, he devoted his life to France. Our ideas, our camp owe a lot to him,” wrote Stanislas Rigault.
16:12 – Jean-Marie Le Pen was “a notorious racist and anti-Semite” coward Manon Aubry
The rebellious MEP Manon Aubry in turn reacts to the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen and she believes that the man was not just “a figure of French political life” as François Bayrou indicated in a message . “Respect for the deceased must not lead to blindness along its path. Jean-Marie Le Pen was a notorious racist and anti-Semite, worshiper of Pétain and a torturer in Algeria. The fight against the man is over but against his ideas remains so that hatred never prevails,” continues the chosen one on X.
16:03 – Jean-Marie Le Pen and the Charlie attacks, united by the same date
Jean-Marie Le Pen died on January 7, 2025, the day on which France commemorates the 10th anniversary of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher. However, Jean-Marie Le Pen had been like many others within the far right not to take in the unanimous support of the French for the satirical newspaper, even if he had said he was “touched by the death of twelve French compatriots. While the slogan “Je suis Charlie” was taken up by everyone, even in politics, the founder of the FN insisted by launching at a press conference in Tarascon: “No, I am not Charlie, I am rather Charlie Martel “, in reference to the Battle of Poitiers and the historic victory of the Christians over the Muslims.
If Jean-Marie Le Pen refused to support the spirit of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The duck, for its part, has always fought the ideas of the father of the FN in numerous drawings like this one dating from 1995 and brought out from the closets by the rebellious deputy Christophe Bex who comments: “The death of Father Le Pen, a nice tribute for Charlie.”
15:36 – Stéphane Ravier says he is losing a “political father”
Stéphane Ravier, far-right senator from Bouches-du-Rhône, expresses his sadness after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen to La Provence. “After my biological father, I lost a father for the second time. Jean-Marie Le Pen was another birth for me. He accompanied me, showed the way, yelled at and congratulated,” he declares considering the politician who died as a “political father”. “He was the embodiment of courage who held his ground whatever the storms and situations,” he adds.
15:28 – Jean-Marie Le Pen still supported by his second wife, Jany
Jean-Marie Le Pen had his three daughters, Marie-Caroline, Yann and Marine with his first wife during a union which lasted from 1960 to 1987. And four years after the divorce, the man rebuilt his life with his second wife, Jany, whom he only married in 2021 in a traditional religious wedding in Rueil-Malmaison. Jany Le Pen, rather discreet, has always presented herself as a housewife disinterested in politics and is content to comment on her husband’s “manliness”. She was a real support, but without any real political or activist connotation, yet she almost replaced her husband in the European elections when he risked ineligibility.
15:20 – The heartbreak of one of the Le Pen girls
If Marine Le Pen did not react publicly to the death of her father, which she learned very abruptly while she was returning from Mayotte, Marie-Caroline Le Pen, another daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, posted a photo of her as a child in her father’s arms. “You will not be able to console me for this sorrow. To God, Dad,” she wrote in the comments.
15:13 – The funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen will be held “in the strictest privacy”
After the announcement of the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen’s former communications advisor, Arnaud Stéphan, indicated on BFMTV that the politician’s funeral will take place “in the strictest privacy” and “in the family setting in La Trinité-sur-Mer”, a town in Morbihan where Jean-Marie Le Pen was born.
15:09 – The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen seen by the New York Times
The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen is relayed as far as the United States. The New York Times announced the news with these words: “Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founding father of France’s modern political far right, who built a half-century career on diatribes about racism, anti-Semitism and barely disguised neo-Nazi propaganda, is dead.
15:02 – François Ruffin calls for combating Jean-Marie Le Pen’s “racist ideas”
“Friends of Vichy and torture in Algeria. The FN founded with the Waffen SS, the ‘Durafour crematory’ and the ‘details of history’. A fascist from another time is gone. But leaves behind heirs, very current”, writes the ex-rebellion François Ruffin. Heirs who “honor the ‘tribune’ and the ‘servant of France'” after the announcement of his death, and whose “racist ideas” must be fought, added the left-wing elected official.
14:57 – The reaction of ecologist Mélanie Vogel to the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen
Environmentalist senator Mélanie Vogel posted a message on denied, to all targets of the far-right”. If the man is dead, “his ideas” and “the danger they represent for our democracies are very much alive”, writes the senator who calls for fighting them: “Let’s finally beat his heirs”.
2:50 p.m. – Communist Ian Brossat encourages fighting the ideas of Jean-Marie Le Pen
Ian Brossat did not really react to the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, but reposting the announcement of the death made by AFP he called for fighting “relentlessly” the “nauseating” ideas of the former man political who they “remain”. even been convicted for this.”
Anti-Semitism, revisionism, racism and homophobia are not polemics.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, through his actions and his words, found himself outside the republican framework. He was even convicted for it.
The words of @bayrou are unworthy of our history. https://t.co/vvatrQoWpZ
— Pierre Ouzoulias (@OuzouliasP) January 7, 2025
14:36 – Bompard judges that Le Pen was not “a great servant of France”
Among the rebels, it is the turn of coordinator Manuel Bompart to react to the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen on reactions of far-right personalities. “He was nostalgic for collaboration, responsible for torture, a racist and an anti-Semite. He was an enemy of the Republic. The dripping tributes from his heirs today remind us that his ideas remain and that the struggle anti-fascist remains a hot topic,” adds the elected official.
Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead.
No, he was not “a great servant of France”. He was nostalgic for collaboration, responsible for torture, a racist and an anti-Semite. He was an enemy of the Republic.
The dripping tributes from his heirs today…
— Manuel Bompard (@mbompard) January 7, 2025
14:32 – Eric Ciotti regrets the death of a man who “served France with passion”
Eric Ciotti, leader of UDR deputies and ally of the RN since the last elections legislative elections, sends its condolences to the family of Jean-Marie Le Pen in a press release. He regrets the death of a “profoundly French” politician who “served France with passion”. “He was a politician with a career punctuated by gray areas, but also courage, powerful intuitions and sincere patriotism,” adds the MP in his press release. According to him, this disappearance “marks the end of a page of the Fifth Republic”.
Jean-Marie Le Pen was deeply French and served France with passion, from ward of the nation to candidate in the second round of the presidential election.
His disappearance marks the end of a page of the Fifth Republic. He was a complex man, with gray areas but also…
— Eric Ciotti (@eciotti) January 7, 2025
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