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Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy ( December 23, 1925 - May 1, 1993) was a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1992 to 1993.1 Early career
Pierre Bérégovoy started his professional life at the age of 16 as a qualified metal worker. He got involved in politics following from his involvement in the French resistance while working at SNCF during World War II.
2 Death
Pierre Bérégovoy died on May 1, 1993, in Paris after being transported by helicopter from Nevers ( Nièvre), where he had been found an hour sooner, in a coma with a bullet in the head. Police investigators ruled his death as a suicideSuicide (from Latin sui caedere to kill oneself) is the act of ending one's own life. It is considered a sin in many religions, and a crime in some jurisdictions. On the other hand, some cultures have viewed it as an honorable way to exit certain shameful, confirming his bodyguardA bodyguard is a person who protects someone from personal assault, kidnapping, assassination and acquiring confidential information. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, most bodyguards are former or current police officers, or sometim's deposition, who claimed the former prime minister was with him when he grabed the guard's gun. Most of Pierre Bérégovoy's close friends have admitted that he had been depressed ever since he lost the march legislative elections, but his spouse did express some doubt, mainly because he had not left a suicide note.
On the 10th anniversary of his death, in 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U, the assassination theory resurfaced in the media. According to this very controversial theory, Pierre Bérégovoy has been killed in order to cover some scandals that implicated the president François Mitterrand. The main argument for this theory is the few similar cases in the president's entourage:
- René Lucet , director of the sécurité sociale, found dead with 2 bullets in the head on march 4March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). There are 302 days remaining. Events Up to 1799 303 or 304 Martyrdom of saint Adrian of Nicomedia. 1152 Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans. 1461 King He, 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du
- François de Grossouvre , intelligence, found dead on april 7 1994, killed by a bullet in the head in his office in the Palais de l'Élysée.
- Pierre-Yves Guézou , in charge of eavsdroping telephone communications (concerning terrorists investigations), found hanged in his home on december 12 1994.
- Pierre Bérégovoy - Prime Minister
- Roland Dumas - Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Pierre Joxe - Minister of Defense
- Paul Quilès - Minister of the Interior and Public Security
- Michel Sapin - Minister of Economy, Finance, and Privatization
- Michel Charasse - Minister of Budget
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn - Minister of Industry and External Commerce
- Martine Aubry - Minister of Labour, Employment, and Vocational Training
- Michel Vauzelle - Minister of Justice
- Jack Lang - Minister of National Education and Culture
- Louis Mermaz - Minister of Agriculture and Forests
- Ségolène Royal - Minister of Environment
- Frédérique Bredin - Minister of Youth and Sports
- Louis Le Pensec - Minister of Overseas Departments and Territories
- Jean-Louis Bianco - Minister of Transport, Housing, and Equipment
- Louis Mermaz - Minister of Relations with Parliament
- Bernard Kouchner - Minister of Health and Humanitarian Action
- Émile Zuccarelli - Minister of Posts and Telecommunications
- Michel Delebarre - Minister of Civil Service and Administrative Reform
- Bernard Tapie - Minister of City
- Hubert Curien - Minister of Research and Space
- René Teulade - Minister of Social Affairs and Integration
Changes
- 23 May 1992 - Bernard Tapie leaves the ministry and the office of Minister of City is abolished
- 2 October 1992 - Martin Malvy succeeds Charasse as Minister of Budget. Jean-Pierre Soisson succeeds Mermaz as Minister of Agriculture, becoming also Minister of Rural Development.
- 26 December 1992 - The office of Minister of City is reestablished, with Bernard Tapie again as Minister.
