Franco Dragone died on the age of 69

Franco Dragone died on the age of 69 this Friday in Cairo following a coronary heart assault, stated Claudine Cornet, one in all his former collaborators.

The Louviérois had gone to Egypt for skilled causes after attending final week the present “Decrocher la Lune” within the streets of La Louvière.

A number of political figures reacted to the announcement of the dying of Franco Dragone, emphasizing specifically his attachment to his metropolis of La Louvière. “It’s a actual catastrophe for our metropolis”, declared the mayor of La Louvière, Jacques Gobert. “He had given us this stunning reward of mounting ‘Decrocher la lune’ per week in the past”. On the event of the eighth version of this city opera bringing collectively some 850 actors and extras, Franco Dragone had put ahead the thought of ​​​​making a museum “Decrocher la lune”.

“Franco Dragone was a really nice director and director of breathtaking exhibits. A baby of Wallonia, he returned to La Louvière in order that the inhabitants may ‘get the moon'”, Walloon Minister-President Elio Di Rupo, born within the central area.

For the Minister of Tradition within the Wallonia-Brussels Federation Bénédicte Linard, “it’s a sturdy character, a person of spectacle, a director with expertise acknowledged all through the world and who has at all times remained near his metropolis of La Louvière who left abruptly right this moment”.

The mayor of Charleroi Paul Magnette hailed “an endearing man of nice expertise who made Wallonia shine on this planet whereas remaining deeply devoted to his Italian and Louvierse roots”.

Born on December 12, 1952 in Vairano (Italy), he moved in along with his mother and father in 1958 in La Louvière.

The director was notably identified for his Cirque du Soleil exhibits, which had been very fashionable everywhere in the world.

In 2000 in Las Vegas, singer Céline Dion found her work with marvel. A collaboration was born between the 2 artists and the Canadian famous person landed in La Louvière to rehearse his present.

Since 2012, the artist was the topic of a judicial investigation in Mons for tax evasion, cash laundering and corruption. He was charged in December 2015. His dying doesn’t finish the authorized proceedings.

He was affected by leukemia which he hoped to remedy.