By SudOuest.fr with AFP
Two identical hearses, two coffins side by side: the funerals of the Bogdanoff brothers, who died of the Covid six days apart, brought together this Monday, January 10 at the Church of the Madeleine, in Paris, relatives and several hundred people .
The singer Francis Lalanne, who became the voice of the antivax, the writer Raphaël Enthoven and the former minister Luc Ferry were among the relatives who came to say goodbye to Igor and Grichka, the most famous twins of French television, known for their show of science fiction “Temps X” on TF1.
Nearly a thousand anonymous were also present for these popular funerals and open to all, before a burial Wednesday in the strictest privacy in the cemetery of Saint-Lary, the Gers village of their birth.
“They couldn’t be separated any longer”
Mass began around 3 p.m. at the Madeleine church, where Johnny Hallyday’s funeral took place in December 2017. On the mass booklet, a photo of the twins, with this sentence attributed to them: ” in the universe, nothing is impossible! “
Unvaccinated, Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff fell ill with Covid-19 around December 15, they were then hospitalized. “Things got worse. It’s fate. They couldn’t be separated any longer… They were surrounded by people in the hospital! Until the end, they gave each other news a few rooms apart… ”, confided last week Amélie de Bourbon-Parme, ex-wife of Igor Bogdanoff.
Igor died on Monday January 3 at the age of 72, less than a week after his brother Grichka. The twins peaked in the 1980s with a futuristic anticipation TV show, before being criticized for the credibility of their scientific work and being taunted for their transformed physique which they themselves described. “Extraterrestrial”.