Jean-Christophe Picard, the tenacious president of Anticor national with origins in Nice, never forgets his city with a particular focus on Christian Estrosi, whom he considers the rightful heir of Jacques Mรฉdecin. As you can read below, there is no shortage of occasions…
Responding to the request from Anticor 06, Marc Concas, a municipal councilor of Nice, wrote on May 14, 2014, to the mayor of Nice to have the designation “Max Cavaglione” added to the agenda of the city council for a public place…
Max Cavaglione, who passed away on February 12, 2013, was a Commander of the Legion of Honor and recipient of the Resistance Medal, with a background in accounting. He was notably a city councilor of Nice from 1978 to 2001 and a distinguished member of the Tender Commission. He relentlessly tracked any waste of public funds and persistently exposed the misdeeds committed by some unscrupulous elected officials, and he also stood out in the fight against the abuses of large corporations, like the Compagnie Gรฉnรฉrale des Eaux.
Incredibly, Marc Concas faced a refusal! In a letter dated May 6, 2015, he was informed that “the Street Name Commission held on March 16, 2015, did not accept [his] proposal.”
Why such a decision? “Max Cavaglione will remain the nemesis of the Mรฉdecin system,” Nice-Matin headlined after his death. This is likely what the municipality holds against him. The current mayor of Nice has never hidden his admiration for the most famous T-shirt seller of Punta del Este…
Christian Estrosi notably inaugurated, on November 27, 2013, the “Jacques Mรฉdecin” plaque, whose name was given to a segment of the Promenade du Paillon. He thus chose to honor a figure repeatedly sentenced to prison terms (for interference, passive corruption, and concealment of misuse of corporate assets) and stripped of his civic rights for five years. On this occasion, Christian Estrosi made this eloquent statement: “I recognize in Jacques Mรฉdecin the man who opened the path to public life for me.”
In this context, one can better understand why, in Nice, Max Cavaglione does not have a place!
