European Fencing Confederation       

Confédération Européenne d’Escrime

                 

                 11.12.2007

 

 

Information Letter no. 37-2007

 

 

Dear Member Federations,

 

It is with great sadness that we have to inform you of the sudden death of

 

                                            Rolland Boitelle

 

who passed away early this morning in Paris, his hometown, at the age of 83.

 

The European Fencing Confederation lost a very good friend of the international fencing movement. His devotion to fencing is highlighted by his career in the FIE.

 

At the 1984 Milan Congress he was elected as President, successor of Gian Carlo Brusati, and re-elected 1989 in Madeira until 1992, when the actual President René Roch took over. From this time on he was the Honorary President of the FIE.

 

The European Fencing Confederation sends its deepest sympathy and condolences to Mrs. Janine Boitelle and to the French Fencing Federation.

 

 

Alisher Usmanov

      President

 

 

 

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