The mediator of the Bir Hakeim Bridge in Paris will soon bear the name of Jean-Paul Belmondo

Pebble filmed a legendary scene there Fear for the city : The middle of the Bir Hakeim Bridge (between the 15th and 16th districts), famous for its metal columns and its view of the Eiffel Tower, will be renamed at the beginning of April “Jean-Paul Belmondo Park” in honor of The actor who passed away in 2021acted on Friday at the Paris Council.

in Fear for the city by Henri Verneuil, released in 1975, A fearless actor who has mostly performed his own dangerous stunts, Commissioner Letelier materializes. After a serial killer hunt is raging in the capital, step onto the roof of a metro train on line 6, which crosses the Seine by air on this bridge. this sceneIt injured him for the only time in his careerMoDem elected Maud Gatel noted, whose group proposed a tribute of this kind just weeks after the actor’s death.

The installation will take place in the coming weeks

The site has been selectedWith his familyMemory (PCF) assistant Laurence Patrice specified, gleeful that the tourists who frequented the bridge could “Find the name of this great actor who is well known abroad“.

The installation will take placeClose to his ninetieth birthdayShe said. The actor, who has more than 80 credits, will turn 90 on April 9.

By attributing this name, the Council of Paris again departed from the practice of stating that the name of a character could not be attributed to a public road in the capital before five years after death. He has already done so earlier this week by renaming the Quai de Seine in front of the Musée d’Orsay after former head of state Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and a stadium in the 13th arrondis*****t after Pele, the legendary Brazilian footballer who died in December.