France: Lawmaker Claude Goasguen, staunch Israel supporter, dies of virus aged 75
Via The Times of Israel:
Claude Goasguen, a Republican deputy and long-time right-wing Parisian figure, died Thursday morning of a heart attack brought on by coronavirus, his family told AFP.
In intensive care for the past 22 days because of coronavirus, the former mayor of Paris’s 16th arrondissement was said to have been in a “much better condition and was walking again,” but subsequently experienced cardiac complications and died at 9:00 a.m.
A supporter of an “uninhibited” right, Goasguen was chairman of the France-Israel parliamentary friendship group and was a long-time supporter of Israeli policies. In 2017, he called to transfer the French embassy to Jerusalem, aligning with the United States.
He repeatedly expressed his rejection of anti-Semitism and participated in numerous events held by the Parisian Jewish community.
“I am in total solidarity with Israel, my great regret is that I am not a Jew myself,” he said last year.
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