The image is beautiful. Some 3,000 people were gathered in the stadium of his exploits. That of the Velodrome where he won the Champions League in 1993. The coffin, covered with a flag of Marseille and another stamped with the portrait of the ex-businessman, as well as the scarves of the seven clubs of supporters of OM, is posed in the center of the field. Then the cup with the big ears is brought and posed also on top of the body, while the notes of “Jump”, by Van Halen, then “We Are The Champions”, by Queen resonate.
In the VIP tribune, all the Marseille political gratin is there: the socialist mayor of the city Benoît Payan, the LR president of the metropolis and of the department Martine Vassal, the LR president of the region Renaud Muselier.
On Friday, supporters will be able to accompany Bernard Tapie, behind the funeral convoy, for a final time, for a procession between the Old Port and the Cathedral of the Major, where his funeral mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m.
Interment will then take place in the Mazargues cemetery, in the southern districts of the city.
