Jean-Marie Le Pen receives burial this afternoon in Brittany amid extraordinary security measures

MADRID Jan. 11 () –

The mortal remains of the historic French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died on Tuesday, will be buried this afternoon in the French region of Brittany amid tight security measures that will prevent the dissemination of images and demonstrations in the municipality of La Trinité -sur-Mer, where he will be buried.

The Prefecture of the Morbihan department has issued three orders in this regard that temporarily prohibit the flight of ‘drones’ with cameras, as well as any other method of capturing, recording and transmitting images and the aforementioned prohibition of gatherings.

The security forces justify their orders on the “risks of riots and counter-demonstrations that could provoke clashes between antagonistic movements with diametrically opposed ideologies and regularly inciting violence,” according to a statement published on their website.

The burial will begin at approximately 2:30 p.m. this afternoon, according to sources close to the ceremony.

The veteran politician, who achieved a historic passage to the second round of the presidential elections in 2002, ended four decades of leadership of the National Front party in 2011 to hand over the baton of command to his daughter, Marine Le Pen, who renamed the party – now called the National Rally – with a view to reaching new heights of power.

Le Pen theoretically retired from political life in 2015, when he was expelled from the party he founded for his anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial views. He went so far as to say that the gas chambers of Nazi Germany were “a detail in the history of World War II.”