Life after the terrible nightmare.
For a long time, Jean-Marie Bockel, who was mayor of Mulhouse, deputy, socialist minister of Mitterrand in the 1980s, then secretary of state of opening of Sarkozy twenty years later, and finally senator UDI, had announced that he would not run again in September 2020. The year of his 70th birthday.
He kept his word, declining the offer to lead the lists to the senatorial, then to the regional ones, while considering avenues for the future.
“I knew quitting politics would be difficult;
I confirm that it is difficult, ”
he admits, he who finds himself for the first time without a mandate since 1981.
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Because it was counting without the pandemic.
And especially without this phone call, on the morning of November 26, 2019, announcing the tragic helicopter accident in the dark night of Mali.
He knew straight away that Pierre-Emmanuel, the youngest of his five children, a helicopter pilot who left for the fourth time in Opex, would not return.
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