On August 15, 2023, Gérard Leclerc and his two passengers died after the plane he was piloting crashed not far from Lavau-sur-Loire, in a marshland area bordered by tall reeds. This Friday, July 12, the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis released its report on the circumstances of the accident.
Julien Clerc didn’t expect it… On August 15, 2023, his little brother Gérard Leclerc lost his life in the crash of the plane he was piloting, with two other people on board, Michèle Monory. – daughter of René Monory, former minister and former president of the Senate – and a friend of hers. A real tragedy for the journalist’s relatives, and especially for the singer who had a very close relationship with his brother. Two days after Gérard’s disappearance, the singer of Leave me a place had to perform on stage in La Baule. An event that the artist of course honored, despite the mourning. “Of course I’m going to sing. For me, singing is not a job, it’s the way I found to get through this life, to say ‘I love you’ to people. It’s my second way of breathing. My brother had arranged to meet me here tonight. and fate decided otherwise”, he had declared to his audience.
And to add: “If there is one thing I am sure of, it is that he would have hated it if we were sad and that he would have hated especially since I don’t sing. I will think of his wife Julie, their children Charlotte, Antoine, Mathieu and their family and I will dedicate this concert to him. I will sing to tell my brother that I love him…”.
Gérard Leclerc dies: new revelations on the circumstances of his death
The funeral of the 71-year-old television journalist took place on August 24 in the commune of Trois-Moutiers, in Vienne, in the presence of the journalist’s close familyincluding Julie Leclerc, the wife of the deceased journalist, grieving Julien Clerc and his wife, but also the journalist Thomas Sotto, the comedian Nicolas Canteloup or Marc-Olivier Fogiel. Nearly a year after this terrible tragedy, the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) published its official report on Friday, July 12, unveiled by West FranceFollowing the investigations, BEA investigators believe that Julien Clerc’s brother has “very probably” was the victim of a “spatial disorientation” because of the cloud cover.
Despite the unfavourable weather conditions, Gérard Leclerc and his two guests still wanted to fly to La Baule to attend his older brother’s concert. “When the plane came out of the cloud layer, with a high speed, The pilot probably did not have time to react before the plane collided with the water surface“the BEA report concluded. A tragic accident.
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