2023-11-29 14:54:20
EELV MEP Michèle Rivasi, October 29, 2016. FRANCK PENNANT / AFP
Green MEP Michèle Rivasi died on Wednesday November 29 at the age of 70 in Brussels, confirmed to Monde European elected official David Cormand. The national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, Marine Tondelier, said ” shocked ” near Release. “I have the infinite sadness to learn of the sudden disappearance of Michèle Rivasi, environmentalist MEP, she wrote on. She was one of those tireless activists, friendly, authentic, accessible. We mourn a great lady of political ecology. All our thoughts to his family. »
In an internal message to his colleagues consulted by The worldMEP David Cormand confides: “We are devastated by this news. We were all deeply attached to Michèle, and for many of us, even more so since we met her in the European Parliament. In truth, we can only be in love with Michèle because everything about her inspires conviviality, accessibility, authenticity. Even in his rants, his uncompromising and caring frankness prevailed over everything else. »
MEP for almost fifteen years
The co-president of the Left group in the European Parliament, Manon Aubry, paid homage to to one “huge hard worker, who fought without shuddering the abuses of the giants of the pharmaceutical industry and the lobbies”. “An ecology fighter has passed away”for her part reacted the European deputy Marie Toussaint in a press release.
This associate professor of biology, from Normale, made herself known in 1986 by denouncing the “state lie” about the Chernobyl cloud. She co-founded the Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity (Criirad) shortly after the nuclear disaster, to oppose the state monopoly on these studies.
She entered politics in 1997 by winning the seat of deputy for the Socialist Party of Drôme until 2002, then moved to the Greens in 2005. Four years later, she was elected MEP, then re-elected in 2014 and 2019. She was very popular with environmental activists, who placed her ahead of Cécile Duflot during the 2016 primaries – before the 2017 presidential election. In 2019, she also almost took the head of the European list from Yannick Jadot.
During the Covid-19 epidemic, she took a position against compulsory vaccination and compared the health pass to apartheid – the South African regime which from 1948 to 1991 established segregationist laws.
Read Michèle Rivasi’s column in “Le Monde” (2015): Article reserved for our subscribers These scandalous antidepressants
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