Founder of the far-right Front National party, was expelled from his own party in 2015 for his statements justifying the Nazi holocaust and opposing immigration.
The founder and historic leader of the far-right French National Front party, Jean Marie Le Pen94 years old, is hospitalized in the Paris region with serious prognosis.
Le Pen was hospitalized on Saturday afternoon after contracting an ailment at his Rueil-Malmaison in Hauts-de-Seine. “Great fatigue, perhaps of a cardiac nature, justifies his immediate hospitalization by order of his doctors,” a friend of Le Pen explained to the newspaper ‘Le Point’.
Le Pen was last hospitalized in February 2022 after a Temporary ischemic attack, a mild form of stroke. Once vanquished, the historic far-right leader showed no concrete sign of weakness, even receiving the press to give interviews until last week.
Used to be candidate for the French Presidency up to five times, but he had not held any responsible position since he left his seat in the European Parliament in 2019. He did continue to participate as a commentator or commentator.
In 2018, at the age of 90, he published a book of memories who began by rejoicing at his bad reputation:
Entrenched anti-communist, colonialist and anti-migration extremist, defender of the collaborationist government… his extreme statements set him free in 2015 expelled from his own party which he founded in 1972. He even disowned his daughter Marine LePen Through “pass it on to the system“.
Convicted of apology of war crimes and denial
In 2008, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced him for a crime of complicity in apologizing for war crimes and denying a crime against humanity to three months in prison and paying a fine of 10,000 euros because he had said in an interview in 2005 that the Nazi occupation of France “was not particularly inhumane.”
Earlier, in 2005, he was fined for speaking against immigrants and in 1998 for defending racial inequality. In 1997, he was convicted of saying the gas chambers were a “historical detail”.
Source: EITB
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