Jean-Marie Demange (23 July 1943 in

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

– 17 November 2008) was a French politician. A member of the UMP he served as a member of the

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from 1986 to 2008. He also served as the

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of Thionville for 13 years, serving in that capacity from 25 June 1995 to 21 March 2008. He had been distraught after losing the 2008 election to a

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and committed

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by gunshot after he killed his

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following a heated argument.

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