Paris deputy Claude Goasguen died Thursday at the age of 75. Recently hospitalized, he was a victim of Covid-19, like Patrick Devedjian a few weeks ago. He is remembered as a tenor of the right in recent decades.

A baron from the right disappears. Claude Goasguen died Thursday, at the age of 75, of cardiac arrest shortly after contracting the coronavirus. He had been an MP for over twenty years. "It's a page of the Parisian right that is turning" says an elected official from the capital. His colleagues in the Assembly are today "a little orphan" and greet a "free man" and "strong of his convictions".

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Protected by Jacques Chirac, Claude Goasguen had become assistant to the town hall of Paris before being briefly appointed minister in 1995, under the first Juppé government. He was also elected to the Paris Council since 1983, first in the 14th then in the 16th arrondissement. In 2017, preferring to keep his seat as a deputy, he had left the town hall of the 16th district which he had occupied since 2008.

One of the first politicians to contract the coronavirus

Claude Goasguen was always a little "offbeat, but very committed", retains an elected official. A fervent defender of Christians in the East and the State of Israel, he was also a great defender of anti-Semitism. "My great regret is that I am not a Jew myself," he said one day.

These positions led him, conversely, to firmly oppose the creation of a Palestinian state. At the National Assembly, in November 2016, he questioned the government on Unesco's positions in favor of Palestine, and created the controversy: "Mr. Prime Minister, we should ultimately know what France is looking for with regard to the State of Israel. Do you think that Unesco will emerge from this political drought operation made with emirs? ", he declared, adding:" France is dishonored, France is tired of licking the slippers of emirs. "

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Claude Goasguen was one of the first politicians to contract the coronavirus. After 22 days in intensive care, he was released from the hospital. "He was better and was walking again" specifies his family. But this morning, he died of a cardiac arrest, just recovering from Covid-19.