President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute Sunday 29 March to the former minister and president of the Hauts-de-Seine departmental council, Patrick Devedjian, "a free spirit" , who died on the night of the coronavirus.
"France loses a committed politician who put his great culture, his immense knowledge of the law and his passion for freedom at the service of its territory and the Nation," he wrote in a press release.
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Patrick Devedjian was "a free spirit who always wanted to think the right in nuance and complexity" , greets the head of state, in unison with the political reactions that have followed one after the death announcement, at 75 years, of this former minister of Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy.
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“He who, never forgetting his origins, had Armenia at heart, deeply loved France, its culture, its imagination, its public services: his last public words were for the nursing staff who, until the end, 'helped to fight against the virus and for the agents of the Hauts-de-Seine department, mobilized in the service of its citizens ,' he adds.
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