MARSEILLE (France) – The funeral of Bernard Tapie, the former Olympique president , who died yesterday at the age of 78 after a long battle with a tumor. The archbishop of Marseille, Msgr. Jean-Marc Aveline, will preside over the ceremony. Then the former businessman, politician and actor will be buried in the Mazargues cemetery, a district south of Marseille.
Macron also remembers it
The president too French Emmanuel Macron recalled this in a letter published on the website of the regional newspaper ‘La Provence’ (of which Tapie was the majority shareholder): “ From the cemetery of Mazargues, where he will arrive for his last rest, he will continue, I am sure, to watch over this city of which we have talked so much together and for which he has cultivated an endless passion until the end “. On Thursday the Marseillais will be able to greet” the boss “, as Tapie was called, at the Velodrome stadium, where it will be open the funeral home to the public. On Wednesday a first Mass in homage to Tapie will be celebrated in Paris.
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