(FILES) Former French far-right party National Front (FN) President Jean-Marie Le Pen (R), speaks to his wife Jany on October 16, 2015, in Marseille, after a session of the Regional Council. 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 BORIS HORVAT / AFP)