{"id":74571,"date":"2025-01-07T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/far-right-french-politician-jean-marie-le-pen-dies-aged-96-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:44:08","slug":"far-right-french-politician-jean-marie-le-pen-dies-aged-96-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/far-right-french-politician-jean-marie-le-pen-dies-aged-96-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen dies aged 96 | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has died aged 96, according to a family statement shared with AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen, who <!--more--> had been in a care facility for several weeks, died at midday on Tuesday &#8220;surrounded by his loved ones&#8221;, the family said.<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen &#8211; a Holocaust denier and an unrepentant extremist on race, gender and immigration &#8211; founded the French far-right National Front party in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>He reached the presidential election-run off against Jacques Chirac in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen&#8217;s daughter, Marine, took over as party chief in 2011 and has since rebranded the party as National Rally, turning it into one of France&#8217;s main political forces.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#France #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has died aged 96, according to a family statement shared with AFP. Le Pen, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}