The astonishment and emotion invaded the National Assembly, this Monday, July 7, after the announcement of the death of Olivier Marleix. The deputy of LR of Eure-Et-Loir, much appreciated by the parliamentarians for their justice and convictions, committed suicide at the age of 54. An investigation was opened to determine “the causes of death.”
• The body found at home
The Gendarmes entered the house of Olivier Marleix, based on the city of Anet, was around 15 hours. The agents had been alerted by Aliette Le Bihan, mayor of the city, as well as parliamentary assistance.
“Olivier Marleix did not show up for the permanence of Anet. I called him several times, but I thought he was doing something more or that he had forgotten. And at the beginning of the afternoon, he did not appear in the National Assembly. Therefore, his service called me and presented me (here, in Anet),” the first councilor told our colleagues of the Republican echo.
The Gendarmes “discovered their inanimate body, hung in a room above the house,” according to a press release from the prosecutor of the Chartres, Frédéric Chevallier.
• The “privileged” suicide thesis
“At the end of these first investigations and medical-legal findings, the intervention of a third party can be excluded in the occurrence of the death of the deputy, the suicide track is, consequently, privileged,” added the magistrate.
An investigation was launched “in search of the causes of death.” “It is a procedure provided by the Code of Criminal Procedure, when faced with a death that cannot be explained. Not a flagration investigation, not a criminal investigation, but a third type of investigation that makes it possible to conduct investigations to try to understand how Deputy Marleix died,” said Féridric Chevallier.
An autopsy to determine the exact causes of death should be done on Wednesday morning.
• A “small piece of paper” that is close to the body
To clarify the reasons that led the deputy of the Republicans to commit this law, the investigators confiscated “a telephone and computers” that belonged to him. However, “as it is, it has not been found that there is no deed,” said Chartres prosecutor.
“The lifting of the body is underway and, for the moment, no element that suggests that we are out of suicide” the idea, for the moment, is to collect a maximum of information, “he said.
No letter “to explain something” was “found.” Only a “small piece of paper”, but “Foreforts have not yet exploited this document,” said Frédéric Chevallier to the Republican echo.
• A political calendar that questions
Until his death, Olivier Marleix was the rapporter of a bill aimed at “facilitating the retention of persons sentenced for acts of particular gravity and presenting strong recurrence risks”, whose examination took place on July 1 and 2.
Enough to question the environmental member Sandrine Rousseau, who, during a micro-set of the session, spoke of political reasons of this suicide potential. “He was a text leader that we are studying at the beginning in the Assembly (the bill for Paris-Lyon-Marseyille pots, an editor’s note) and is in second place that makes this gesture. I would like to ask myself about the political signs that this refers to. The calendar does not seem completely harmful,” he said.
The elected official argues that “there are many deputies here that are going wrong”, that “tensions are important” and that the hemicyle remains “a place of violence.” “I don’t know what happened to him and respect his decision to finish it, but the calendar wonders a lot,” he concluded.
For his part, the mayor of Anet Aliette Le Bihan has no warning signs. “We were together on Saturday morning for the inauguration of a new town hall in our sector, then we were invited to the tenth anniversary of the nursery that had been created since I was there. It was as usual as I knew him,” he said.
• Unanimous taxes of the political world
After the announcement of his death, the political environment greatly praised the memory of the deputy, beginning with a minute of silence in the hemicycle. President Emmanuel Macron spoke of an “politician” who “defended his ideas with conviction.”
In motion this morning in the district of Olivier Marleix in Eure-Et-Loir, Prime Minister François Bayrou expressed his “infinite sadness.” “This makes us think that we never know the fragility of human beings, even those who seem the strongest, most combative, the most committed.”
Many deputies on the left also paid tribute to the deputy of LR. The national coordinator of the rebel France spoke of an “always respectful political adversary, a unique voice, associated with the defense of the industrial sovereignty of France.”
In 2019, Olivier Marleix had directed the Alstom Energy Sales Commission to General Electric and had taken justice, convinced that it was a strategic abandonment by the Government.
Source: BFM TV
