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According to law enforcement sources, Olivier Dassault’s French billionaire helicopter took off from a private area off the Normandy coast at 6 p.m. It crashed shortly after take-off.
Olivier Dassault loved France. As an industrial leader, a member of parliament and local government, as a reserve captain in the Air Force, he has been serving his country endlessly, drawing on its strengths. His sudden death is a great loss. – Olivier Dassault wrote about the French billionaire, heir to the Dassault group of Mirage, Falcon and Rafale fighter jets and about the right-wing politician Emmanuel Macron on Twitter.
According to police sources, the helicopter crash occurred at 6 pm off the Normandy coast. The pilot also died in the tragedy, with no one else on board. The Aérospatiale AS350 Écureuil helicopter crashed while taking off from a private area.
Several politicians mentioned the son of Serge Dassault, former owner of the conservative French daily Le Figaro, who died in 2018, and grandson of the company’s founder, Marcel Dassault. According to Prime Minister Jean Castex Olivier Dassault was a humanist, a visionary entrepreneur, a man deeply committed to his native land, an artist of graceful audacity.
Forbes magazine ban in 2020 Olivier ranked Dassault the 361st richest man in the world, along with his three brothers, attributing around 5,000 million euros in assets to each of them.
Following the death of his grandfather in 1986, his father, Serge Dassault, appointed Olivier Dassault as Deputy Director of Europe Falcon Service and Chief Strategic Officer of Dassault Aviation, and in 2011 he became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Dassault Group, which could have been the springboard for one day becoming the head of the family farm.
However, seven years later, a few months before his father’s death, Olivier Dassault resigned as chairman of the supervisory board of the family business, which he considered incompatible with his mandate.
Olivier Dassault, as the father of three children, has been a right-wing member of the National Assembly in Oise, near Paris, since 2002.
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