<- Hard dé e: 0.023749113082886 sec -> Hostage in Lebanon for nearly a year in 1987, the journalist and diplomat Roger Auque, 58, died Monday in Paris as a result of cancer. His funeral will be held Friday at 10:30 in the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, told AFP one of his relatives, former UMP Jean-Pierre Grand.
Born in 1956 in Roubaix (Nord) a Gaullist father and mother of a communist, he was a journalist and reporter in several media as RTL, La Croix or Paris Match. He was a war correspondent in Lebanon when he was kidnapped by Hezbollah in January 1987 and was finally released on 27 November along with his colleague Jean-Louis Normandin.
Made Knight the Legion of Honor in 2004, he had yielded to the lure of politics and was elected alderman of the ninth arrondissement of Paris on the UMP list in 2008 A year later, he was appointed ambassador of France to Eritrea by the President Nicolas Sarkozy. He had to leave that post and repatriated to France in August 2012 due to his health problems. “It was then more interested in action than by observation,” said on I-Tele Charles Pasqua, Interior Minister during the hostage crisis in Lebanon.
A name associated with Le Pen
Roger Hauque had again made headlines in the press last November with the release of the book “conquering”. In this book, journalist Christine Clerc says Roger Auque, not Samuel Maréchal, is the father of Marion Marechal-Le Pen. “Marion was 2 years old when her mother met and married Samuel Maréchal,” says Christine Clerc in his book. A few lines later, she added: “Marshal recognized the little girl. Grateful, Marion wanted to take his name. At fifteen, she still wanted to know his real father, the journalist, which are reviewed from time to time. “
” This has nothing to do in the press “had reacted MP Vaucluse following the publication of extracts from the book in” The Express. ” Marion Marechal-Le Pen had then filed a complaint against the weekly newspaper for invasion of privacy.
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