INTERVIEW
A page turns for the Parisian right. Minister in 1995 under the first Juppe government, member of the 14th arrondissement of Paris since 1997 and mayor of the 16th from 2008 to 2017, Claude Goasguen died on Thursday of a cardiac arrest. He had been admitted to intensive care for 22 days after contracting Covid-19 but has since returned home. Michèle Alliot-Marie, former deputy and minister, paid tribute to him on Thursday at the microphone of Europe 1. "Claude, he was a physical, intellectual and moral rock. He was truly one of those men who give meaning and pride in politics. "
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"Convictions, character, talent and humanism"
"Today, what dominates is sadness." Michèle Alliot-Marie says she lost a colleague and a friend whom she had met in 1986, when she entered government as Secretary of State for Education. Claude Goasguen was then attached to the office of the Minister of Education, René Monory. "We followed each other with great friendship, from near and far."
"MAM" particularly remembers Claude Goasguen's commitment to the Christians of the East, but also his attention for the weakest, "close to him, in his 16th arrondissement". "He had convictions, character, talent and humanism. A character of Breton", exclaims the former Minister of the Interior.
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She also praises her intellect and her taste for the debate "based on a historical and legal culture", she specifies. "We were not always in agreement, but our friendship was not tainted by that."