How will the funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen take place in La Trinité-sur-Mer?

They will be held “in the strictest privacy” with only family, friends of the clan and a few elected officials who will be authorized. Four days after the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died on Tuesday at the age of 96, his funeral will be celebrated on Saturday in his native town of La Trinité-sur-Mer, in Morbihan. “Far from his national notoriety, he liked to enjoy his house here with his friends and family, in privacy and discretion,” said the mayor, Yves Normand, in a press release.

The farewell mass will take place in the small Saint-Joseph church, not far from the farmhouse where the politician was born and where his family found refuge in the summer. In August 2023, the old chapel built in 1682 had already welcomed the entire Le Pen clan for the wedding of Mathilde, Marine’s second daughter.

After the religious ceremony, the procession will head towards the La Trinité-sur-Mer cemetery, where the founder of the National Front will join his parents Jean and Marie in the family vault. In 2018, the patriarch confided in Figaro when talking about his death. “I thought of a marble plaque marked Jean-Marie since I would be in the Le Pen tomb,” he indicated. There is no need to say my name, just my first name. »

A security system put in place

After the funeral, another “religious and tribute” ceremony will take place on Thursday January 16 in the Val-de-Grâce church in Paris, which depends on the diocese of the armies. Decided by Marine Le Pen and her sisters Marie-Caroline and Yann, this mass will be open to the public. Mayor of Perpignan and vice-president of the National Rally, Louis Aliot hopes that these moments of contemplation will not be marred by excesses which cannot be excluded given the sulphurous personality of the deceased. “They are not going to come and demonstrate at a funeral. And if they do, I suppose the State will make sure to keep them away,” said the mayor of Perpignan.

Contacted by 20 Minutesthe prefecture of Morbihan tells us “that given the nature of the personality and the gatherings that occurred in several French metropolises on Tuesday evening, a security system will be put in place to ensure that the funerals take place with dignity and prevent possible disturbances to public order which may arise.

Tuesday evening, several gatherings took place in Paris, Lyon, Rennes and Nantes to celebrate with songs, smoke bombs and fireworks the death of the founder of the National Front. “Death, even the enemy has the right to respect”, reacted the government spokesperson, Sophie Primas, thus repeating the formula used by Jean-Marie Le Pen upon the death of Jacques Chirac.