The ceremony took place with relatives but away from the media. The journalist Gérard Leclerc, who died on August 16 in a tourist plane accident, was buried this Thursday in the village of Trois-Moutiers (Vienne), in the presence of personalities, including his half-brother, the singer Julien Clerc.
About two hundred people attended the funeral ceremony, closed to the press, organized in the cemetery of this town of a thousand inhabitants in the north of Vienne, where the 71-year-old journalist resided. His widow, radio host Julie Leclerc and Julien Clerc were at the front of a procession which walked behind the hearse, in single file, on a small country road between the journalist’s home and the communal cemetery.
Anonymous and personalities
Singer Alain Chamfort, comedian Nicolas Canteloup, host Pierre Dhostel or television manager Marc-Olivier Fogiel were also present in the crowd, filled with many anonymous people and escorted by the gendarmerie. “He was a very simple person, who said hello to everyone and liked it here,” said a neighbor, who came to pay a last tribute to Gérard Leclerc.
Gérard Leclerc, journalist for CNews and former presenter for France 2, died on the morning of August 16 when the passenger plane he was piloting crashed in Lavau-sur-Loire (Loire-Atlantique). The accident was fatal to the two other people on board the aircraft, Michèle Monory, daughter of the former minister and president of the Senate René Monory, as well as a friend of hers.