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THE FAMILY OF JEAN-MARIE LE PEN INCLUDING MARINE LE PEN ARRIVE AT A SMALL CHURCH FOR A PRIVATE FUNERAL SERVICE THIS AFTERNOON 1/11/2025
This week the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the National Front political party that in recent years morphed into the National Rally led by his daughter Marine Le Pen.
The daughter kicking out the father to distance herself and the party from controversial remarks construed as Racist and Antisemitic.
Mr. Le Pen also the grandfather of Marion Marechal a political leader in her own right in the Reconquete movement until last summer now an independent member of the European Parliament.
Mr. Le Pen being buried today at a private family ceremony. The ceremony in La Trinite-sur-Mer located in Brittany...
"Death Of Jean-Marie Le Pen: His Family Gathered In La Trinite-Sur-Mer For His Funeral"-AFP-BFM-TV (Translation Prompt) (Video Embed)
Next Thursday a public ceremony at a church in Paris will held.
Posting on "X" Marine Le Pen said:
"A venerable age has taken the warrior away but given us back our father
Many people he loved are waiting for him up there. Many who love him mourn him here below. Fair winds and following seas, Papa!"...
The relatively calm reaction of mainstream French politics to Jean-Marie Le Pen's death underlines his daughters position at the leading presidential candidate for the 2027 Election.
Associated Press Story
"That forgot to thank us. That doesn't matter. It will come"
Comments that could be construed as racist made Monday by President Emmanuel Macron regarding the military ties lost with African countries.
Leaders of nations like Chad and Senegal bristling at Mr. Macron's remarks which included the notion that:
"None of them would now be at the head of a sovereign country if the French army had not been deployed in this region"
French military activities ostensibly to protect the Sahel African nations from terrorism but Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko says France created the instability in the first place with its intervention in Libya in 2011.
Sonko calling the overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi supported by France an event:
"with disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the Sahel"
In its statement the government of Chad noted the large number of African soldiers who fought for France during World Wars I and II as colonial troops in the French Army...
"African countries react angrily to Macron's 'contemptuous' speech"-NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
From Paris this afternoon video posted from a Yellow Vests protest a long video...Paris Yellow Vests Week 321 1/11/2025...
Also, this lengthy video includes a small group marching in the streets...Yellow Vests Protest March Paris 1/11/2025 Week 321 (March Is One Hour Into Video)
A video from northern France today where traffic circle protests have been going on for years.
This video shows what such a protest looks like six years since the first Yellow Vests protest.
A small protest group participating today unlike the larger groups of the past...
TONIGHT, IN STRASBOURG DOZENS HURT WHEN TWO TRAMS COLLIDED. THE INJURIES MINOR.
ONE OF THE TRAMS BACKING INTO ANOTHER. AN INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY THE LOCAL PROSECUTOR DOES NOT BELIEVE THE COLLISION WAS DELIBRATE...
That's the story of news and events in France this week.
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