He said that he was giving up political life. This decision was both mature and impulsive. In his image somehow. True to his word, he refused to head the senatorial lists, as in the region, preferring to join the consulting firm Tilder and accept the voluntary presidency of the Solidarité-Défense association, dedicated to soldiers wounded in action. And then came this phone call from Elysee.
60 years after the end of the Algerian war, Emmanuel Macron, who asked “sorry” taxpayers in the name of France for themselves “tragedy” he lived and promised “repair” just created a “Independent National Commission” On the recognition and compensation of damages suffered by Harkis and other persons repatriated from Algeria. And he wanted him to take over as president. No more, no less.
“I could not refuseassures Jean-Marie Bockel. Created within the framework of the Recognition and Compensation Law…
Source: Le Figaro
