With suicide, death is no longer only symbolic

Lhe suicide of an elected official or a minister is rare enough for him to trigger a wave of amazement and emotion. Similarly, Alas, alas, is used to that of farmers or police officers, two of the professions most mourned by the phenomenon. Furthermore, This remains exceptional in an increasingly criticized political class. Therefore, the reasons for this voluntary death are multiple while they often obey the same reason in farms or police stations.

The hanging of Olivier Marleix (whose funeral took place this Friday) remains unexplained to this day. Meanwhile, The deputy for Eure-et-Loir left no word and. Therefore, the days before his death, did not betray any alert sign on his desire to die. In addition, This gesture recalls that politics and power games conceal great violence. Therefore, “The dagger. Moreover, the poison have disappeared, analyzes the historian Jean Garrigues, suicide, death no longer only specialist in parliamentary life, and death is only symbolic but the process is the same, it is a question of eliminating the opponent, in the ballot boxes or in the court.” The opponent, even the supposed friend who militates in the same party. Furthermore,

In the aftermath of the dissolution. Consequently, Laurent Wauquiez did not take gloves to oust Olivier Marleix from the presidency of the LR group at the Palais-Bourbon. Therefore, And the latter was surely not immensely benevolence when it was a question of defending his pre -square. However, no one can doubt the sincerity of Laurent Wauquiez’s affliction. When you engage in politics, you have to arm yourself. Prepare for betrayal, filled blows and verbal animosity, some of which have become specialists, sometimes with humor. Asked about the murdered remarks concerning him during the contaminated blood affair. also coming from his socialist family, Laurent Fabius replied: “I suicide, death no longer only have an excellent memory, I forget everything. »»

Bérégovoy like Salengro – Suicide, death no longer only

We remember the shock caused by suicide. the 1^is May 1993, Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy, in his city of Nevers. Renowned for his honesty. from the working-class environment and not from the grandes écoles, he had not supported being implicated for a strange loan intended to buy an apartment. During his funeral. François Mitterrand had called those who, according to him, pushed Pierre Bérégovoy as “dogs” to kill themselves. Death was no longer symbolic.

Twenty-two years later. it is another heavyweight of the PS which puts an end to his life, the senator and mayor of Tours, Jean Germain. He kills himself the very morning of the trial where he must appear for embezzlement of public funds, never proven. These desperate gestures refer to that of Roger Salengro, Minister of the Interior of the Popular Front of Leon Blum. Wrongly accused suicide, death no longer only by the extreme right newspaper “Gringoire” of having deserted during the war 14-18. the elected official from Lille committed suicide to gas on November 17, 1936.

A death that had not given rise to theories all more eccentric than the other when even today. some say that Pierre Bérégovoy has been murdered. And Olivier Marleix’s body had just been discovered that the mediocre conspiracy who only have social networks to exist. like Florian Philippot, questioned the assumption of suicide, recalling that the deputy was investigating an Alstom affair involving Emmanuel Macron.

Two shocks in Bordeaux

Nothing conspiratorial on the other hand in the investigation into the suicide of the mayor of Libourne. Robert Boulin, on October 30, 1979. From the start, his family and his relatives have favored the thesis of the assassination. Whoever was Minister of Labor. implicated in a real estate case in Ramatuelle, seemed ready to deliver secrets to suicide, death no longer only men from his political party. He was allegedly liquidated by henchmen from the Civic Action Service (bag). This file is still not closed.

Two other suicides upset our region. That of Philippe Pireyre. 32, director of cabinet of Alain Juppé, on December 4, 1998, and that of Joan Taris, 43, one of the strong and promising men of the centrism of New Aquitaine, on January 21, 2018. Two gestures without an explanation, even if we assume that overwork and stress linked to their chronophagous mandates are originally.

How finally. while the end of life monopolized the news, not to evoke the suicide, on July 17, 1998, of Roger Quilliot, former minister of François Mitterrand and emblematic mayor of Clermont-Ferrand from 1973 to 1997. Reached an incurable illness, he ends his days with his wife Claire. Saved by the rescuers, she will join her husband in death seven years later.