Olivier Dassault died on March 7, 2021 in a helicopter crash.

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Like a family resemblance.

The nephew of Olivier Dassault, LR deputy for Oise and industrialist who died on March 7 in the crash of his helicopter, announced this Monday in the

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that he was running for the succession of his uncle to the deputation.

The latter, son of Serge Dassault, died at age 69 in Touques, near Deauville.

He had been a member of the Oise since 2002.

“I am 28 years old and my legal studies are finished.

If I want to choose a path, it's now.

And the drama we have just experienced led me to accelerate my decision.

I often thought of following in my uncle's footsteps, but I had the time.

Unfortunately, we do not foresee the unforeseeable, ”said Victor Habert-Dassault in an interview published this Monday evening on the newspaper's website.

"I assume a tragic fate that I did not want"

“We are not born Dassault.

We become it.

I assume a tragic fate that I did not want.

I am made of a wood which obliges me.

If I did not respond to this moment in the story that links my family and the Oise, I would probably regret it all my life ", continues the one who indicates having" participated in the campaign of Valérie Pécresse in Ile-de-France " and had an “experience of parliamentary attaché with Jérôme Chartier (LR)”.

Victor Habert-Dassault also explains that he had “a privileged relationship” with his uncle, “including at the artistic level”.

After the death of his grandfather Marcel Dassault in 1986, his father Serge appointed Olivier Dassault, deputy director of Europe Falcon Service and director of civil aircraft strategy for the company Dassault Aviation, which manufactures Rafale combat aircraft. and Falcon business jets.

In 2011, he was appointed chairman of the supervisory board of the Dassault group, which placed him in a good position to one day take over the family holding company.

But seven years later, a few months before his father's death, he announced to AFP his decision to resign from the presidency of the supervisory board of the family holding company "because of incompatibility with his mandate as deputy".

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