(FILES) French president, leader and founder of the French far-right party Front national (FN) Jean-Marie Le Pen arrives to speak during his last meeting for the regional elections at the Palais des Congres in Marseille, southeastern France, on March 7, 2010. 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 PATRICK VALASSERIS / AFP)