(FILES) French former leader and founder of the French far-right party Front national (FN) Jean-Marie Le Pen poses with his dogs during a photo session at his home in Rueil-Malmaison, west of Paris, on February 2, 2022. 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 JOEL SAGET / AFP)