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Barely a month after the disappearance of Didier Roustan, L’Equipe mourns Jérôme Le Fauconnier, who died on Friday at the age of 57.
“ Jérôme Le Fauconnier, our colleague and friend, died during the night from Thursday to Friday at the age of 57 », We can read this Saturday in the digital pages of L’Equipe, as a preamble to an article paying tribute to a journalist who also worked in the editorial staff of But and France Soir.
Three years ago, Jérôme Le Fauconnier learned the terrible news that he was suffering from Charcot’s disease. “ Jérôme fought against Charcot’s disease with lucidity and sometimes caustic humor, refusing to feel sorry for his personal situation. Continuing to write articles despite a body that, day after day, was failing », Narrates the sports daily.
His final article, the former JRI once spent by L’Équipe 21, devoted it to the end of Nikola Karabatic’s career, this summer as part of the Paris Olympic Games. “ An attentive and daily reader of the newspaper and the site, he kept, until the end, a sometimes keen eye on our editorial choices. Today he leaves us all orphans », concludes L’Equipe.
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