Jean-Marie Le Pen was serenaded by a group known to have links to international far-right groups.
advertisementFrench far-right leader Marine Le Pen has defended her father Jean-Marie Le Pen after a video surfaced of him singing with a neo-Nazi band at his home.
Le Pen, 96, the longtime leader of the National Front, which was renamed the National Rally (RN) by her daughter, has not appeared in the ongoing embezzlement trial involving her daughter and numerous staff.
However, a video currently circulating on social media shows him singing with members of the far-right rock group Match Retour at home. In the video, one of the band members is seen wearing a T-shirt praising the Hitler Youth.
Matchritour is known to be affiliated with an international neo-Nazi network known as ‘.blood and honor‘ is a band born in the British far-right music scene in the 1980s. Members call for violent action for the ‘survival of the European race’.
The former far-right leader, who shocked France and the rest of Europe by advancing to the second round of the 2002 presidential election, is seen happily singing with a band in the video.
Marine Le Pen said she would take legal action against the group and those who allowed them into her father’s home, claiming they took advantage of her father’s frailty and alleged dementia.
“Jean-Marie Le Pen can recite a Musset song but may not know what year it is,” she said in a statement.
In the video, group members sing the Napoleonic song ‘Fanchon’ and serenade the aging leader with a specially written song that specifically references the infamous homophobic comments he made publicly in 1997.
