Crowds attend Paris memorial for far-right French leader Jean-Marie Le Pen under tight security
- Hundreds of mourners attended a memorial for Jean-Marie Le Pen at Val-de-Grâce Church in Paris, who died on January 7 at age 96.
- The memorial sparked debate in France over Le Pen's controversial remarks and history, including his trivialization of the Holocaust.
- The National Rally party organized the tribute, acknowledging Le Pen's influence in far-right politics in France.
- The ceremony featured mixed reactions, with some praising Le Pen while others condemned celebrations of his death.
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In recent years, talking to a member of the National Group (RN) of Jean-Marie Le Pen has been a dangerous exercise. Those who felt greater admiration for the founder of the National Front (FN) relegated to the past this annoying figure, arguing that his racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, serophobist or Holocaust denialist positions were nothing more than provocations of another era. Others took the liberty of going further, even claiming to have …
RN deputies, gudards, antisemites, skinheads... All shades of brown pay tribute to Jean-Marie Le Pen
The mass in tribute to the founder of the FN brought together in Paris all the chapels of the extreme right, from the most radical antisemites and denialists to the elected representatives of the National Rally, including activists from violent groups.
Most of them banned from accessing the Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce church, where a mass in memory of Jean-Marie Le Pen was taking place on Thursday, January 16, several figures of the radical extreme right made the trip to greet the co-founder of the National Front.
This Thursday, January 16, 2025, in front of the Val-de-Grâce church in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, nearly 2,000 people paid their last tribute to Jean-Marie Le Pen.
French Pay Respects to Far-Right Firebrand as His Party Moves to Center
Hundreds of mourners flocked to Paris’s venerable Val-de-Grâce church on Thursday to pay their final respects to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the architect of France’s modern far-right movement who was known for his racist and antisemitic remarks. A speaker at the requiem Mass praised Mr. Le Pen, saying he had “perceived, before all others, the dangers that threaten France today.” A choir sang a French military song asking God for “the ardor to fight.” Th…
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