Paris (AFP)
Pierre Sidos, figure of the far right Petainist and nationalist, founder of the Jeune Nation movement and then of L'Oeuvre française, dissolved in 2013, died Friday at the age of 93 in Normandy, AFP learned from sources on Saturday. concordant.
Mr. Sidos "died in the hospital of Bayeux (Calvados), surrounded by his family", added, joined by AFP, Yvan Benedetti, who had succeeded him at the head of the French Work before the dissolution of this openly anti-Semitic movement.
The movement of L'Oeuvre française was integrated into the National Front at its beginnings.
When she arrived at the head of the FN (now the National Assembly) in 2011, Marine Le Pen had excluded her representatives, including Mr. Benedetti.
FN co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen praised his memory on Twitter.
"The death of Pierre Sidos concerns this great national and patriotic family that we have served and guided, in our often different way. And yet ... I salute his memory", wrote the father of Marine Le Pen, who was still present at a banquet by his side in 2016.
Yvan Benedetti tweeted for his part that "France was losing one of its best children and nationalism one of its best soldiers! Throughout his life, his Honor was called Fidelity".
He is the son of François Sidos, a former militiaman who was tried and shot in 1946 for acts of collaboration.
Admirer of Pétain and Franco, he was part of the fascist militias of Marcel Bucard during World War II and was condemned after the war with one of his brothers, Jacques.
Amnestied, Pierre Sidos founded in 1949 the Jeune Nation movement, which was dissolved in 1958. He then created the Nationalist Party, banned in turn, before chairing from 1968 L'Oeuvre française, openly anti-Semitic and whose slogan was " France to the French ".
Its emblem was the Celtic cross.
Partisan of French Algeria, Pierre Sidos had also taken part in the Petit-Clamart attack against General De Gaulle.
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