(FILES) French leader and founder of the French far-right party Front national (FN) Jean-Marie Le Pen (L) and the deputy for the Bouches-du-Rhone Bernard Tapie (R) pose at France Television set, ahead of a political debate in Paris on June 1, 1994. 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 GEORGES BENDRIHEM / AFP) (Photo by GEORGES BENDRIHEM/AFP via Getty Images)