Olivier, somewhat of a French Republican lawmaker, died in a helicopter crash on the 7th. AFP Yonhap News
Olivier Dasau, 69, a Republican (LR) congressman, the founder of France’s largest defense company Dasota Group, died in a helicopter crash on the 7th (local time).
According to the French daily Le Parisian et al., Congressman Darus was disfigured as soon as he took off with a private helicopter to return home from his villa near Deauville, Normandy, in northwestern France around 6 pm. The pilot also lost his life in this accident.
French President Emmanuel Macron mourned on Twitter, saying, “His sudden death was a big loss,” saying, “I lost my head who never knew to stop serving my country in my life.” Prime Minister Jean Castex also commemorated him as “a human legislator, a foresight entrepreneur, a man devoted to his country, an artist with elegant boldness.”
Rep. Dasau first entered politics as a Paris city councilor in 1977. After being elected as a member of the House of Representatives of the Oise State in 2002, he has kept the seat. In the 1980s, he worked as an executive at Dado Air, and in the 2000s, he also worked as a director of Dado Group, which owned daily Lefigaro. Last year, the US economic journal Forbes announced that some of the lawmakers’ fortunes amounted to about 6 billion euros (about 8.75 trillion won), ranking 361th in the global wealthy.
Marcel Dasau, the grandfather of Congressman Dasau, who founded the group, was an aeronautical engineer and renowned inventor who developed the propellers used in French airplanes during World War I. It is also the manufacturer of the representative high-tech next-generation fighter’Rafal’.
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