“I will fight against the disease”. Friday morning, Gérard Collomb, former mayor of Lyon and Minister of the Interior, announced that he had stomach cancer. The diagnosis was made Monday, he said.
Aged 75, he says he is determined to overcome this cancer “with the same energy” that he had “put at the service of Lyon” and the metropolis of Lyon when he “exercised the functions of mayor and president”.
Doucet gives him his support
A municipal councilor from 1977 to 1995, Gérard Collomb became mayor of Lyon in 200. He remained there for 16 years before handing over the reins to his first deputy Georges Képénékian in 2017, when he was appointed Minister of the Interior. by Emanuel Macron. A short parenthesis. The former first cop in France quickly slammed the door of Place Beauvau with a loss and a crash, to return to his Lyon lands in 2018. And at the same time take back his mayor’s scarf.
Beaten in 2020 at the end of a fratricidal war with his former faithful, Gérard Collomb, who was seeking a fourth term, gave way to the ecologist Grégory Doucet. The latter gave him his support for the fight to be led. “I sincerely wish to repeat it to you after our call, receive my fraternal thoughts and my sincere support. Take care of yourself,” he wrote on social media.
Since his defeat in 2020, Gérard Collomb has remained very active in the opposition and on the local political scene. He is still an advisor to the town hall and to the metropolis.