The former president of the National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was hospitalized on Saturday after suffering from a heart attack. He was admitted to an establishment in the Paris region. It would be “aware“and surrounded, according to Lorrain de Saint Affrique. This long-time adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen also specifies that his family and relatives are “worried but calm“.
“He is fine”the news is “reassuring”indicates this Sunday morning his daughter Marine LePen, president of the RN group in the National Assembly, guest of the Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI. “My dad is going gloriously into his 95s, so it does require a few trips to the hospital every now and then to get some sort of tweaking done. health”said the deputy
Now 94 years old, this historical figure of the French far-right has already known several hospitalizations
including one, in February 2022, after a mild form of stroke.
Elected MP for the first time in 1956, five times presidential candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen had been expelled from the National Front, a party he helped to found, by his daughter, Marine, in 2015, after a series of verbal slippages which had previously earned him several court convictionsincluding challenging crimes against humanity and incitement to hatred.
The “Menhir” as it has been nicknamed, has never expressed regret for its slippages, controlled or not, often repeated: from the gas chambers “point of detail in history”, to “the inequality of races (1996), via the “not particularly inhumane” German Occupation (2005).
In the Parliament of Strasbourg, where he was elected several times, he will try, he says, “to defend France against Europe, against the abuses of the European Union”. He left his last term as an MEP in 2019.
