Marine Le Pen was overcome with emotion as she attended the funeral for her father, far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, in Paris today, days after she said she would “never forgive herself” for having him. expelled from the party. he founded.
National Rally MP Le Pen, the youngest of Jean-Marie’s three daughters, was seen sobbing outside the Notre-Dame Val-de-Grâce church, where a mass was held this morning in honor of her late father .
Jean-Marie, a controversial figure in France known for his fierce rhetoric and Holocaust denial, died at age 96 on Jan. 7 in a care facility where he had been for several weeks.
The founder and former leader of the populist National Front (FN), which later became the National Rally (RN), handed the reins of the party to his daughter in 2011.
She expelled her father from the party just four years later over a comment he made that the Holocaust – the systematic murder of millions of Jews by the Nazis – was a “detail of history”, comments for which he was also convicted.
Less than a week after her father’s death, Le Pen told French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche that her decision to remove him from the party “caused her immense pain.”
He called his father’s expulsion from the party “one of the most difficult decisions of my life”, adding: “To the day I die, I will always wonder if I could have acted differently.”
Marine Le Pen was emotional as she attended the funeral in honor of her father, Jean-Marie, who died last week.

National Rally MP Le Pen, the youngest of Jean-Marie’s three daughters, sobbed in front of the Val-de-Grâce church.

Supporters gather outside during a memorial service for French far-right figure Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s National Front political party, hugs his daughter Marine Le Pen in 2013.

Marion Marechal, Jean-Marie’s granddaughter, leaves after a religious ceremony to pay tribute to the late French far-right figure Jean-Marie Le Pen
Le Pen was buried at a private funeral in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer, southern Brittany, following his death last week.
In today’s more public mass, hundreds of people gathered to watch the event, which was broadcast to the public outside the Catholic church on a large screen.
Mourners dressed in black and French tricolors were saluted, while an RN banner hung from the railings.
Marine clasped her hands in gratitude for the huge crowd of fans who had gathered.
There was a large police presence at the event, which was reportedly attended by Éric Zemmour and other far-right figures.
President Emmanuel Macron described Le Pen as a “historic figure of the far right” and said “history will judge” her impact on France’s political landscape.
Macron’s political enemy Marine, who ran RN for years and now heads it in parliament, said it was “a little unfair to judge (my father) only in light of these controversies” that marked his life.
“His political career spanned almost 80 years and it was inevitable that there would be issues that created controversy, unless you were some sort of Sarkozyite lite (supporter of Nicolas Sarkozy, the former conservative president) or socialist,” he said. “What’s unfortunate is that he got caught up in these provocations.”
Le Pen was known for his fierce anti-immigration and anti-multiculturalism rhetoric that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation.

Marine Le Pen thanks the crowd gathered outside her father’s funeral this morning.

Marine Le Pen consoled herself with an off-duty fellow mourner in Paris today.

A flag of the French far-right party National Rally (Rassemblement National – RN) hangs near the church of Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grace

Eric Zemmour leaves after a religious ceremony to pay tribute to Jean-Marie Le Pen

People wait in front of a large screen with a photo of the late French far-right figure Jean-Marie Le Pen.
He shook the French political establishment when he unexpectedly reached the second round of the presidential election against Jacques Chirac in 2002, a dramatic rise that many attributed to his populist appeal and charisma.
Since then, his daughter ran for president three times and turned the party, now called the National Rally, into one of the country’s main political forces.
Marina was not at his father’s bedside and received the news of his death during a stopover in Kenya while returning from visiting the cyclone-hit island of Mayotte, according to french media.
“You will not be able to console me for this pain,” she wrote in a tribute post on