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It was almost 30 years ago. The former minister of François Mitterrand shot himself in the head, causing stupor throughout the country.
On May 1, 1993, on the banks of a canal near Nevers (Nièvre), the facts were serious enough for television to talk about them. Pierre Bérégovoy, who governed France, was in depression. “He was like a soul in pain, he came into my office with his hands in his pockets, he said ‘It’s fine coco? So we missed everything? I said to him: ‘But what are you saying ?”explains a former minister. The minister was a model of republican ascent. A former worker at 16, he climbed all the rungs with François Mitterrand at Matignon until the left lost the elections. “He felt guilty for the cataclysmic defeat of the Socialist Party in the elections. We had gone from 276 deputies to 57!“says a former minister. He then falls back on his stronghold of Nièvre.
A Death on Labor Day
“He used to take long walks along the banks of the canal near Nevers“, says Jeff Wittenberg. Yet on Labor Day, along that same canal, he grabs his bodyguard’s gun and shoots himself in the head.
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