US EditionFrench politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, ex-National Front leader and father of Marine Le Pen, dies aged 96
- Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder of France's far-right National Front, has died at 96, according to Sébastien Chenu, a senior party official.
- Le Pen was known for his fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism, earning him both supporters and condemnation.
- His controversial statements, including Holocaust denial, led to multiple convictions and strained political alliances.
- Despite his exclusion from the party in 2015, Le Pen's divisive legacy continues to shape the far-right in France.
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Several hundred opponents of Jean-Marie Le Pen (Jean-Marie) gathered tonight in several cities in France to celebrate the news of the death of this historical figure of the extreme right with songs, smoke bombs and fireworks.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder of the far-right National Front party, died on January 7, at the age of 96.
Nearly a thousand people gathered at Place de la République in Paris on Tuesday evening to “celebrate” the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen. The figure of the French extreme right and the founder of the National Front died in Garches in Hauts-de-Seine on January 7.
Father of the French far right dies
Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose ultranationalist and conservative views enraged millions but also shaped the contemporary French political scene, died on Tuesday at 96. Le Pen was a far-right fixture of French politics for nearly five decades as a legislator in the French and European parliaments, and as founder and leader of the National Front party, which he founded in the early 1970s. What were his politics? A theatrical orator and a fierce opponent…
News of Le Pen's death sparked rallies in several French cities, including Lyon and Paris.
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