Death of Le Pen: Paris celebrates the end of an era of right -wing extremism!

The French right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen died on January 8, 2025 at the age of 96. Le Pen, the founder of the Front National And long -time leading figure of the French right, was celebrated by hundreds of people in Paris. On the Place de la République, the participants gathered to cheers his death with cheers, fireworks and the slogan "Le Pen is dead!" to commit.

The small left party Nouveau Parti Antecapitalist had called for this meeting and described Le Pens Death as an occasion for the celebration. The party said on social media: "Jean-Marie Le Pen is finally dead" and added a smiley. Similar celebrations also took place in other cities such as Strasbourg, Lyon and Marseille, where 200 to 300 people took part.

criticism of the celebrations

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau reacted with incomprehension and sharp criticism to the celebrations and shamelessly called them. Jean-Marie Le Pens party was renamed breed emblems nationally and is currently the strongest opposition power in the National Assembly. His daughter Marine Le Pen runs the party and has reached the runoff election in the last two presidential elections, but lost to Emmanuel Macron.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was born in a Breton fishing village on June 20, 1928 and was a central figure of French right-wing extremism, which earned him the nickname "Le Menhir". After the Second World War, he founded the Front National (FN) together with a former Untersturmführer from Waffen-SS in 1972. He was chairman of the party until 2011 before his daughter Marine Le Pen took the lead. In 2015 he was excluded from the party because of his controversial statements about the gas chambers of the Nazis.

Le Pen also served as a soldier in the colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria and was brought to trial several times because of the accusation of torture in Algeria. Despite his political and right -wing activities, he gave the population groups that suffered from the loss of the "Algérie Française". Like the time reported, nationalism and anti-Semitism was central issues in the groups with which Le Pen was connected with.