Jean-Marie Le Pen96 years old, has been hospitalized since the beginning of the week for “analyses”his entourage told AFP. “There are ups and downs”.continued the same source, who nonetheless denied the rumours. “unfounded” as to the alleged bedridden state of Marine Le Pen.

The runner-up in the 2002 presidential election has seen his health deteriorate over the last few years. Prosecuted in the affair of the RN MEPs’ assistants, his case has been “disjointed after a medical expert had found “a “profound deterioration of his physical and mental condition, believing that he was unable to either “to be presentnor to “prepare his defense.

“Not able to give consent”

“It is a fact that (Jean-Marie Le Pen) is not able to give his consent to any act whatsoever”.said Marine Le Pen at the opening of the trial in late September.

She and her two sisters Marie-Caroline and Yann Le Penare the beneficiaries of a “mandate of protection – a measure comparable to guardianship – since mid-February, which enables them to carry out various acts on their father’s behalf, alone or in concert.