The Basque country has lost a political figure. Marie Bernard, deputy mayor of right and Biarritz, father and mentor of former UMP minister Michèle Alliot-Marie, died Tuesday at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine at the age of 96.
“My grandfather died at 22:00 Tuesday night at the American Hospital in Neuilly. He was hospitalized for a month” for a pulmonary infection, said an AFP correspondent his little -wire, Florimond Olive. “He was always fighting, but extremely tired psychologically by the attacks received everywhere these days,” he added.
First French referee V Nations Tournament
Father Michele Alliot-Marie, Marie Bernard was 1973-1991 RPR political figure on the French Basque.
Born June 17, 1918 in Toulouse, Bernard Marie was successively deputy of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, from 1973 to 1981 and mayor of Biarritz from 1983 to 1991. His daughter Michele was his deputy at the Palais Bourbon from 1978 to 1981.
Bernard Marie was also international rugby referee. He was notably the first French to referee a match Tournament Five Nations, March 27, 1965 at Colombes Stadium, replacing the Irish referee RW Gilliland injured during an event France-Pays de Galles.
Mayor of Biarritz, he was beaten during a partial municipal elections in 1991 by the centrist Didier Borotra, his first deputy, who had gathered against him a list with socialist personalities and abertzale (patriotic in Basque).
A lively debate at the origin of the election of 1991, had objected to his deputy and the municipal opposition, about the project that he forbade the construction of a luxury hotel, instead of the Municipal
A preliminary investigation ongoing
He was also one of the four founding members of the Volunteer Foundation, created in 1995 by then Michèle Alliot-Marie Secretary of State for Youth and Sports, pinned activities by the end of 2014 The Chained Duck and where their homes were searched in March 2014. A preliminary investigation is still ongoing to the prosecution of Nanterre on flow of funds around Biarritz Film Festival, including the benefit of a hotel owned by Bernard Marie.
The satirical newspaper also revealed that Bernard Mary, his wife and daughter had stayed late 2010 in Tunisia, where the riots against the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali multiplied at the time. It would have taken advantage of the stay to buy shares in a real estate company (SCI) to Aziz Miled, Tunisian businessman owner of the aircraft that had been made available to Michele Alliot-Marie, Minister of Foreign Affairs .
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