Two videos, revealed by Half part Monday, September 30, show by Jean-Marie Le Pen, at his home in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine), singing in the company of Match Retour, a Lyon-based rock group very close to the neo-Nazi scene.
The founder of the National Front is accused of embezzlement of public funds and complicity in the trial against the parliamentary assistants of the MEPs of the National Front (FN, since converted into the National Rally), which began on Monday in Paris. But the 96-year-old patriarch does not appear, since an expert report estimated that he was not “in condition” be tried on health grounds.
In one of the excerpts of the video broadcast by Half partIn the image filmed on Saturday, the former leader of the far-right party is surrounded by musicians from Match Retour. One of the members of the group sings a piece composed especially for him: “I’m going to make you run, redhead, stop acting smart, I’m going to catch up with you, you won’t get very far.”says the chorus in reference to the homophobic statements made by Jean-Marie Le Pen against a hostile activist during a trip to Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines) in 1997.
One of the group members wears a t-shirt that subverts a Hitler Youth cliché, trumpets and drums in hand.
According Half partMatch Retour occurred in particular, in May 2022, during a meeting in Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines (Haut-Rhin) in tribute to the French SS murdered by the French army in 1945. The group had also organized, in November 2023, the underground “Rock antiwokisme” Festival in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (Isère), which was held despite prefectural bans.
Marine Le Pen told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Monday that she had filed a complaint for abuse of weakness against the group of musicians. “It is clear that [Jean-Marie Le Pen] “He is not capable of giving consent to any act.”observed the head of RN deputies, denouncing “Scandalous behavior of those whom I will condemn in court”.
