French Communist Leader Hermier Dies
Updated: Sun, Jul 29 4:51 PM EDT
PARIS (AP) - Guy Hermier, a French Communist Party deputy and leading
figure in leftist politics in the southern city of Marseille, has died.
He was 61.
Hermier died Saturday evening in a Marseille hospital after battling
cancer for several months.
Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin lamented the loss of a
"companion" who had loyally supported all fights dear to the left.
"Guy Hermier was a man of deep convictions, profoundly attached to the
engagements and values which had inspired and guided his life as a
militant and as a deputy," Jospin said Sunday.
Hermier had been a member of the Communist Party since 1958.
He was elected as deputy for Bouches-du-Rhone in 1978 and had been
identified as a "radical reformist" member of the Communist Party during
the 1980s. He also was director of the weekly magazine Revolution
between 1980 and 1994.
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