‘Why Does Everybody Hate Me?’

In this exclusive interview, Jean-Marie Le Pen heaps contempt on the palm-greasers, opportunists and back-scratchers who make up the French political establishment. If there is calm in the eye of the storm, it was certainly to be found at Jean-Marie Le Pen’s sumptuous villa in Saint-Cloud, Paris, on Tuesday afternoon. In the world outside, the international media reverberated with an orgiastic denunciation of the man the world loves to hate; in Parc Montretout, the brisk click of the sprinklers on the immaculate lawns, and the distant cry of a peacock were the only sounds to disturb the fragrant spring … Continue reading ‘Why Does Everybody Hate Me?’