Jacques Médecin

Doctor Jacques ( born May 5, 1928 in Nice, † November 17, 1998 in Punta del Este, Uruguay ) was a French politician.

Life

The son of the legendary long -time mayor of Nice, Jean Doctor was also for many decades an influential man. He inherited gradually his father, ultimately, the mayor's office, which he held from 1966 to 1990 functions, and he sat for Nice an ambitious modernization program, which did not remain undisputed, but acts cityscape characteristic to this day (such as the Museum of Modern Art and the on stilts guided city highway, today Voie Pierre Mathis - called ).

Doctor was a man of the center-right sympathies for the political rights. He explained, for example, once, to share ideas with 99.9 percent of the Front National, referred to abortion as murder, was stricter anti-Communist and chose Cape Town as a sister city of Nice, which was seen as a gesture of support of the South African apartheid regime. The impulsive politicians belonged to different political factions of the bourgeois camp to even the neogaullistischen RPR was, and remained, but as his father was a personal opponent of Charles de Gaulle.

In the 1980s, the rumors and suspicions against Jacques Doctor compacted on financial misappropriation. Graham Greene wrote a pamphlet against the corresponding Médecinsche Dystem in Nice ( J'accuse - The Dark Side of Nice, 1982), but lost out to about libel, and his writing was banned in France. At the end of the 1980s, however, Doctor ran into the defensive. Given multiple judicial accusations he put back all his offices and fled to Uruguay. Charles Pasqua, the newspaper Nice- Matin and part of the population of Nice, however, remained on his side. Doctor was in the 1990s, multiple multi-year prison sentences, which he, however, serve only for the smallest part musste.Uruguay Doctor delivered to France. After his release, he spent his life in Uruguay.

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