French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen's grave vandalised three weeks after his death

The grave in western France of the co-founder of the country's main postwar far-right movement Jean Marie Le Pen has been vandalised. His granddaughter Marion Maréchal Le Pen posted the image on X on Friday, January 31, 2025.

The grave of Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's far-right National Front party – now called the National Rally (RN) – was vandalised with a sledgehammer in the cemetery of La Trinité-sur-Mer, his family said Friday. Le Pen was a controversial figure in France who voiced openly racist and anti-Semitic views during his career.

Vandals have damaged the grave of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front, his family said on Friday.

Le Pen's granddaughter Marion Marechal said on her X account that the grave, in the cemetery of La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany, had been discovered defaced on Friday, three weeks after his death aged 96.

"You've destroyed the grave of our ancestors. Do you think you can break our hearts, intimidate us, discourage us? Our response will be to fight you ever harder, generation after generation. Our determination will match your infamy," Marechal wrote on X.

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His daughter Marine Le Pen, who took over his party, renamed it the National Rally and has sought to broaden its appeal to more centrist voters, could become France's next president in 2027.

(Reuters)


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