The median of the Parisian bridge of Bir-Hakeim will soon bear the name of Jean-Paul Belmondo

“Bebel” shot a mythical scene there fear over the city : the median of the Bir-Hakeim bridge (between the 15th and 16th arrondissements), famous for its metal colonnades and its view of the Eiffel Tower, will be renamed at the beginning of April “promenade Jean-Paul Belmondo” in homage to the actor who died in 2021, acted on Friday the Council of Paris.

In fear over the city by Henri Verneuil, released in 1975, the intrepid actor who most of the time performed his perilous stunts himself, played Commissioner Letellier. Pursuing a serial killer raging in the capital, he had progressed on the roof of a metro train on line 6, which crosses the Seine by air on this bridge. This scene “caused him to be injured for the only time in his career“, indicated the elected MoDem Maud Gatel, whose group had proposed a tribute of this type a few weeks after the death of the actor.

The inauguration will take place in the coming weeks

The site has been chosen”with her family“, specified the assistant (PCF) to the memory Laurence Patrice, rejoicing that the tourists frequenting the bridge can “find the name of this great actor who is quite well known abroad“.

The inauguration will take place “pclose to his 90th birthday“, she said. The actor with more than 80 works would have been 90 years old on April 9.

By attributing this name, the Council of Paris once again departed from the practice which provides that the name of a personality cannot be attributed to a public road in the capital before five years following the death. He already did so earlier this week by renaming the Quai de Seine located in front of the Musée d’Orsay in the name of former head of state Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and a stadium in the 13th arrondissement in the name of Pelé, legendary Brazilian footballer who died in December.