French MP and billionaire Olivier Dassault dies in helicopter crash
French MP Olivier Dassault has died in a helicopter crash. The 69-year-old Dassault was the son of the late Serge Dassault, a French industralist who led one of the county's biggest defense companies.
Olivier Dassault, French MP and the billionaire heir to the Dassault fortune, died in a helicopter crash in northern France on Sunday.
The 69-year-old, a lawmaker with the center-right Republicans party, was killed near Deauville in Normandy, where he had a holiday home.
Dassault was the son of the late Serge Dassault, a French industralist who led one of the county's biggest defense companies.
The family also control Le Figaro, a leading conservative newspaper in France.
He was elected to the National Assembly - France's lower house of parliament - in 2002 and represented the Oise area.
French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to him on Twitter.
Dassault was seen in a public engagement on Friday in Beauvais near Paris with Prime Minister Jean Castex and Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin.
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