2023-11-26 14:48:29
His funeral will take place in the city he embodied for so long. The funeral of Gérard Collomb, the former mayor of Lyon, will take place on Wednesday at Saint-Jean Cathedral, in the heart of the historic Old Lyon district, his wife announced in a message sent to AFP on Sunday.
“His public funeral will be celebrated on Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Saint-Jean Cathedral,” said Caroline Collomb. She specified that the details “of the tribute that the people of Lyon will be able to pay by going to pay their respects in front of his coffin” will be communicated later.
VIDEO. Death of Gérard Collomb, one of the first powerful elected officials to have believed in Emmanuel Macron
Suffering from stomach cancer, Gérard Collomb, former Minister of the Interior, died Saturday evening at the age of 76. He benefited, at his request, from “deep sedation which allowed him to pass away peacefully with his family,” she said the day before.
A shower of tributes
The death of this Lyon baron, whose support was decisive in Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the 2017 presidential election, sparked a shower of tributes throughout the country and particularly in his city which he profoundly transformed in twenty years in office.
The Head of State thus saluted “a dear friend”, “a mayor who dedicated his exceptional talents of dialogue and imagination to building a city in his image”, a “statesman who embodied the rise and republican authority. The Senate paid tribute to him on Saturday evening by observing a moment of contemplation. In Lyon, the flags were lowered to half-mast at the town hall where he served for a long time.
Lyon is in mourning. This morning, our flags are at half mast.
The city he loved so much pays tribute to him. We, Lyonnaises, have lost a great servant. pic.twitter.com/ukAR8xzZVy
— Grégory Doucet (@Gregorydoucet) November 26, 2023
The environmentalist mayor Grégory Doucet shared on of his “deep sadness” at the disappearance of his predecessor, a “transformative and humanist mayor” who “will have forever marked the history” of the city.
Born on June 20, 1947 in Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire), to a father who was a metalworker and CGT trade unionist and a mother who was a housekeeper, this socialist activist joined the Republic on the Move from the very beginning by Emmanuel Macron. He remained one of the emblematic political figures of the capital of Gaul, of which he was mayor from 2001 to 2017 then from 2018 to 2020 after a brief stint at Place Beauvau.
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