(FILES) French leader and founder of the French far-right party Front national (FN) Jean-Marie Le Pen attends the 2011 FN's congress in Tours, western France, on January 15, 2011. 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 Alain JOCARD / AFP)