BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
Olivier Marleix, photographed in 2023 in the hemicycle.
POLITICS – After the shock, the explanations. On July 7, the LR deputy of Eure-et-Loir Olivier Marleix was found dead at his home in Anet, arousing the amazement and a wave of tributes moved throughout the political class.
A few weeks later, Wednesday, July 30, the public prosecutor of Chartres said in a press release that she had closed the investigation into the circumstances of the death of the parliamentarian and confirmed the privileged track from the first days.
Indeed, the autopsy carried out at the Rouen Medical Institute two days after his death already pointed out “The thesis of suicide, without sign of external or interior violence”according to the public prosecutor of Chartres. “The observations of doctors converge on a diagnosis based on the consequences of asphyxiation caused by hanging”he then added.
This Wednesday, July 30, after the hearing of a dozen people and the analysis of the deputy’s mobile phone, the Chartres prosecutor’s office claims to be able to conclude suicide, while specifying that ” No one had suspected that Mr. Marleix could end his life. »»
“A period of depression”
However, the parliamentarian has consulted a psychiatrist for several months and was in ” A period of depression, with multiple causes – sentimental, intimate and professional. »» The prosecution also notes that the deputy had several in progress projects including that of writing a book or becoming a lawyer at the Paris bar. Olivier Marleix had also put himself ” in running daily and very unusual » et « had lost a lot of weight. »
The public prosecutor also specifies that the toxicological analysis does not conclude that there is any drug or astounding substance, but ” a positive alcohol and alcohol level (alcohol in the urine) positive, but moderate, testifying to a recent and moderate intake, close to the death ».
Also according to the press release, the trigger for acting would be “A final conversation maintained with his partner, and found during the operation of Mr. Marleix’s mobile phone”.
In the Assembly, where Olivier Marleix has been sitting since 2012, the announcement of his death had upset the deputies who observed a minute of silence. Nearly a thousand people, including many national and local political leaders, had paid him a final tribute during his funeral in Anet. It was the fourth time under the Fifth Republic that a deputy committed suicide, after Aymeric Simon-Lorière in 1977, Pierre Bérégovoy in 1993 and Jean-Marie Demange in 2008.
