Paul Killes, socialist, former minister during his presidency François Mitterrand (’80 -’90), died in Paris at the age of 79.
Paul Kiles, a graduate of the prestigious Polytechnic School, began his political career in 1981 as François Mitterrand’s campaign manager. In the Mitterrand governments he served as Minister, mainly of the Interior and Defense.
A member of the French National Assembly, he was elected chairman of the parliamentary committee on defense in 1997, and the following year chaired the French parliament’s mission on France’s role in the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda.
From 1995 to 2020 he was elected four times mayor of the tourist village of Cord-sur-Seiel in southwestern France.
Who is Paul Killes?
The son of a soldier and teacher, Paul Kiles was born in 1942 in French Algeria. After the Polytechnic School he worked until 1978 as an energy engineer at the oil company Shell. In 1972 he joined the Socialist Party and belonged to the wing of François Mitterrand.
In October 1981, he came to the forefront of intense warfare following statements by the right, about the need to “cut off the heads” of the top administration when the left came to power.
Paul Killes, who has been a moderate politician all his life, went on to explain that he actually wanted to “avoid what might sound like a witch hunt”. he admitted, however, that he had made a “mistake” in referring to Robespierre, “in a very negative light”.
A father of three, he was president of the Nuclear Disarmament Initiatives to build a safer world.
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