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Held at Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce, the service brought together the far-right leader’s family and National Rally officials — all protected by tight security.
More than 1,000 people have attended a memorial ceremony for Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party, National Rally.A small crowd arrived at Paris’ Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce church at 11 am on Thursday to attend the mass in homage to Le Pen, who died last week at 96.Family members, including his daughters Marie-Caroline, Yann, and Marine Le Pen, the latter of whom succeeded him as president of his party, joined other National Rally officials and supporters inside the church. Only the 400 or so invited guests were allowed to enter.Onlookers outside, most of them men, were confined to the forecourt, where two giant screens broadcast the ceremony live.The mass took place under tight security. Le Pen was a highly polarising figure, and was convicted multiple times for hateful conduct — including antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. A private funeral took place last week in Jean-Marie Le Pen’s hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany.
