The socialist senator of Seine-Saint-Denis Claude Dilain died Tuesday morning at the age of 66 in Clichy-sous-bois losing its former mayor, in place during the riots of 2005, tireless defender of popular suburbs.
Mr. Dilain, father of five children, died “as a result of a cardiovascular accident” in a Paris hospital, said Olivier Klein, who had succeeded him for mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois.
A “Republican tribute ‘must be made in the coming days in this county of Seine-Saint-Denis, said the aedile.
Many politicians have paid tribute to Mr. Dilain, to the top of the state, François Hollande in a statement hailing his “exemplary fight for the rights of the residents.”
In a separate statement, the Prime Minister Manuel Valls paid tribute to a ” elected copy which has marked his town of Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis and the Republic. “
Pediatrician in this poor suburb northeast of Paris from 1978 to 2013, Claude Dilain described himself as a mouthpiece of the neighborhood residents, a role he definitely endorsed during urban riots in 2005.
The death by electrocution of two teenagers in Clichy-sous-Bois in a transformer where they had taken refuge after a chase with police, was the trigger for several weeks of riots in the suburbs.
By coincidence, the trial of two police officers prosecuted for these facts, to be held from March 16 to 20 in the Criminal Court of Rennes where he was homesick.
At the time, the world media had turned their attention to Clichy-sous-Bois, become the symbol of the evils of the suburbs, and Mr. Dilain appeared first in line.
He had never been continuously asked the authorities to the plight of poor neighborhoods, forgotten Policy .
In 2010, in an article in Le Monde, Claude Dilain recounted a visit organized for a delegation of parliamentarians in his city, and the misery faced only 15 km from Paris.
The opportunity to tell his “shame of being powerless representative of the French Republic,” and get a message that he considered “essential”: that “the policy of the city, if it is not defended the highest state (…) can not solve the problems of the most difficult suburbs “.
A man of having grown up in the city of the Francs-Moisins in Saint-Denis (Seine -Saint-Denis), Mr. Dilain had entered the Senate in 2011, where he was a member of the Committee on Social Affairs.
He continued to slay territorial inequalities, is showing especially in the fight against degraded condominiums. In the upper house, Mr Dilain was one of the rapporteurs of the Act for access to housing and renovation planning (Alur).
It was also in 2012 at the initiative of an appeal against the plurality of elective office, who himself resigned from his term as mayor arriving in the Senate.
Claude Dilain was also Chairman of the Governing Board of the National Agency of habitat.
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