Death of Jean-Marie Le Pen at 96: we know where and when the funeral of the founder of the National Front will take place

This Tuesday, January 7, 2025, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a figure of the French far right, died at the age of 96. His funeral will take place this week.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, a figure of the French far right and finalist in the 2002 presidential election, died Tuesday at the age of 96 in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), in a facility where he had been admitted several weeks ago.

“Jean-Marie Le Pen, surrounded by his family, was called to God this Tuesday at noon”, his family indicated in a statement sent to AFP.

Place, date, time

While the death of Marine Le Pen's father has sparked many reactions in France, the funeral of the almost centenarian will be held at the end of week.

“Jean-Marie Le Pen's funeral will be in the strictest privacy, in the family setting in La Trinité-sur-Mer. It will be just the family”, says Arnaud Stéphan, former communications advisor to Marine Le Pen, on the set of BFMTV.

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According to the local daily newspaper Ouest-France, the funeral will therefore be held this Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 2:30 p.m., at the Saint-Joseph church in La Trinité-sur-Mer. Jean-Marie Le Pen will be buried next to his parents in the Breton town. Another religious ceremony will also be held in Paris.

Many reactions

The French political class has reacted strongly to the death of the founder of the National Front. In a statement published by the Elysée, the head of state expressed his condolences to the family and friends of Jean-Marie Le Pen. “A historical figure of the extreme right, he played a role in the public life of our country for nearly seventy years, which is now the responsibility of History“, it is added.

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. Enlisted in the uniform of the French army in Indochina and Algeria, tribune of the people in the National Assembly and the European Parliament, he always served France, defended its identity and its sovereignty“, writes Jordan Bardella on X.

“Beyond the controversies that were his preferred weapon and the necessary confrontations on the substance, JM Le Pen will have been a figure of French political life. We knew, by fighting him, what a fighter he was”, writes François Bayrou on X.

“Respect for the dignity of the dead and the grief of their loved ones does not erase the right to judge their actions. Those of Jean-Marie Le Pen remain unbearable. The fight against the man is over. The fight against the hatred, racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism that he spread continues“, writes Jean-Luc Mélenchon on X.