“What we will remember about him is that he was a great mayor of Marseille,” said Franz-Olivier Giesbert, the former director of La Provence.

Franz-Olivier Giesbert, political columnist for Le Point and former director of the newspaper Provenceretains from Jean-Claude Gaudin the image of a character “who never gave up”, “held on to life” And “still kept moving forward“.”What we will remember about him is that he was a great mayor of Marseille, who literally transformed Marseille.”continues the former director of Provence.

If Franz-Olivier Giesbert concedes that Jean-Claude Gaudin “perhaps did one mandate too many”, under his first three mandates “and even part of the fourth“, there have been “a kind of total metamorphosis, especially with all the work that has been done in the northern neighborhoods”assures the editorialist, who recalls that the former mayor of Marseille, unlike his predecessor Gaston Defferre, “very interested in the northern districts. He also notes “the beginning of a kind of gentrification of the city, which meant that there were neighborhoods that began to be reborn.”

“Something happened under Gaudin“, concludes Franz-Olivier Giesbert.