(FILES) French Honorary President and former leader of the French far-right party Front national (FN) Jean-Marie Le Pen gives a press conference, in Haute Goulaine, western France, on January 13, 2013. Jean-Marie Le Pen, a French far-right figure and runner-up in the 2002 presidential election, died on January 7, 2025, at the age of 96 in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), in a hospital where he had been admitted for several weeks. (Photo by JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD / AFP)