The former minister and current president of the Hauts-de-Seine (LR) departmental council, Patrick Devedjian, hospitalized after being diagnosed with Covid-19, died on the night of Saturday March 28 to Sunday March 29.

Patrick Devedjian, former Minister, Chairman of the Hauts-de-Seine Department, hospitalized after being diagnosed with Covid-19, died on the night of Saturday March 28 to Sunday March 29.
Press release: https://t.co/Vu0dllFu3K

- Hauts-de-Seine (@hautsdeseinefr) March 29, 2020

The 75-year-old former MP himself announced on Twitter Thursday that he had been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Patrick Devedjian was placed under observation Wednesday in a hospital in the south of the department but his condition did not require intubation.

I am affected by the epidemic, therefore able to bear witness directly to the exceptional work of the doctors and all the nursing staff. Tired but stabilized thanks to them, I go back up the hill and send them a very big thank you for their constant help to all the patients.

- Patrick Devedjian (@DevedjianP) March 26, 2020

Figure of the right, secretary general of the UMP (from September 2007 to December 2008, and ardent defender of the recognition of the genocide of the Armenians, Patrick Devedjian was since June 2007 president of the departmental council of Hauts-de-Seine and was mayor of Antony from 1983 to 2002.

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