2023-11-25 23:47:45
The former mayor of Lyon Gérard Collomb, former Minister of the Interior in the first Macron government (2017-2018), “passed away peacefully with his family” this November 25 in the evening at the age of 76, announced his wife Caroline Collomb to AFP.
Suffering from stomach cancer, “when it became clear that his illness could not be improved by any anti-cancer treatment, he wished to benefit from deep sedation which allowed him to pass away peacefully alongside the hers” around 9 p.m., she said in a brief message. His state of health had deteriorated considerably in recent days and he had been taken care of by the oncology department of Lyon Sud hospital. His death occurred “during a short period of coma”, according to his wife.
“A transformative and humanist mayor”
Gérard Collomb was elected to the town hall of Lyon in 2001. He left his post to join Place Beauvau in 2017, then failed to keep his position in the 2020 municipal elections. He had disappeared from the local political scene since he had himself announced his stomach cancer on his X account (formerly Twitter).
In an interview published on September 19, 2018, Gérard Collomb, then Minister of the Interior, responded with astonishing frankness to questions from L’Express and announced his candidacy for mayor of Lyon, as for the metropolis of Lyon:
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Born on June 20, 1947 in Chalon-sur-Saône to a housekeeper mother and a metalworker father, this scholar of classics, fan of Eddy Mitchell, initiated the transformation of Lyon into a modern metropolis during his mandates successive. His death, announced by the LyonMag site in the evening, sparked a flood of reactions and tributes.
“He was the worthy successor to Edouard Herriot. The Lyonnais are orphans and I share their grief,” declared the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron on his X account (ex-Twitter). The environmentalist mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet praised this “transformative and humanist mayor who will have forever marked the history of Lyon”.
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