When asked about the controversial rallies in France celebrating the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, French government spokesperson Sophie Primas evokes words she says were used by the far-right figurehead himself: "In death, even the enemy has the right to respect".
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00:00I know the violence, the outrages and the unacceptable things that were done by Jean-Marie Le Pen.
00:06However, the man is dead today.
00:09And I will take up his words, the tweet I think he made when Jacques Chirac was dead.
00:16Jean-Marie Le Pen tweeted the following thing.
00:18Dead, even the enemy has the right to respect.
00:21So I take up his words for being a Chiracian, for having fought a lot Jean-Marie Le Pen
00:27on his position, on his behavior, on his statements.
00:31I believe that today, dead, he has the right to respect and his family to our Republican condolences.