At Trinité-sur-Mer, Farewell to Jean-Marie Le Pen brings collectively all of the households of the National Front | EUROtoday
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LThe procession by no means ends. In the winding streets of the small fishing port of Trinité-sur-Mer, in Morbihan, the procession from à-Dieu to the native of the nation, Jean-Marie Le Pen, sculls. On the sidewalks and on the home windows, onlookers mingle with the trustworthy of the founding father of the National Front, who died Tuesday January 7 on the age of 96. Under an enormous blue sky, we applaud because the hearse passes, adopted on foot by the three daughters of the deceased: Marine, Marie-Caroline and Yann Le Pen.
To the purpose of drowning out in locations the sound of the Bignou and the Cornemuse, performed by musicians in conventional garments, accompanying with a Breton air the stroll from the Saint-Joseph church to the cemetery. The solely ones invited to the non secular ceremony officiated by the parish priest, the 2 hundred family members and the primary circle of buddies have been capable of take heed to the Gospel of the Beatitudes earlier than singing, among the many non secular songs chosen by Marion Maréchal, the hymn to Sainte-Anne, patroness of the Bretons.
Even if it was meant to be “strictly family-friendly”, the tribute to the five-time candidate for the supreme election couldn’t be fully faraway from politics. As proof, it’s none apart from the presidential poster of 2002, in black and white, that the household selected for example its mass booklet in addition to a biographical booklet distributed to the trustworthy current. Both concluded with the favourite mantra of the previous nationalist figurehead: “The future always begins tomorrow”.
Before arriving on the vault, all of the households and generations of the Front which turned the National Rally have been stunned to seek out themselves, like this, shoulder to shoulder. Co-founder and former vice-president of the National Front, Alain Jamet, 90, is there. The younger boss of the RN, Jordan Bardella, 29 years previous, too.
“Death, even the enemy has the right to respect”
Marie-Christine Arnautu, Bruno Gollnisch and Huguette Fatna, previously Jean-Marie Le Pen’s first lieutenants, rub shoulders with these near Marine Le Pen. MEP Gilles Pennelle or the MP for Pas-de-Calais, Bruno Bilde, particularly. While the senator from Marseille follows – having left the RN for Éric Zemmour over the past presidential election – Stéphane Ravier, in addition to the RN deputy from Var, Frédéric Boccaletti… Among the 2 hundred friends, nearly as many nameless folks be a part of the procession over the hours. Bernard Boiché, in his sixties, is one in all them. An early activist for Jean-Marie Le Pen, he could have traveled 2,800 kilometers over the weekend, the spherical journey from Beaucaire within the Gard, to be there. “I couldn’t imagine not saying goodbye to him,” he says.
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Around twenty radical skinhead-style activists, some with their faces hidden, additionally managed to make their method between the big police pressure. But with out creating an incident. Otherwise, for one in all them, to be roundly bullied after which chased away by the MEP and brother-in-law of Marine Le Pen, Philippe Olivier, for having displayed a French flag surmounted by a Celtic cross, an indication of rallying of small fascist teams. To the good aid of the organizers, no left-wing political or associative demonstrations disrupted the ceremony. Due, particularly, to a powerful deployment of regulation enforcement, together with greater than 100 gendarmes and CRS mobilized.
“When presenting his condolences, Emmanuel Macron assured Marine Le Pen that the necessary means would be put in place so that the serenity of the family is respected,” says a detailed buddy of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter. As if echoing the phrases slipped by the Head of State to the federal government, over the past Council of Ministers: “Death, even the enemy has the best to respect. »
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