It was almost eight years ago… Tuesday May 9, 2017, Nikos Aliagas lost his father, Andréas, who died at the age of 78. Since then, the host never misses an opportunity to pay tribute to him. Proud of his father’s career, immigrating to France in 1964, he declared on Saturday January 11, 2025 on the set of the show C l’hebdo, on France 5: “Sometimes, I say to myself, if this boy doesn’t had not left his country with a small suitcase and that he had not arrived at the Gare de Lyon with nothing… He is a kid He sleeps on a bench the first evening He had left to start again. life he was a child of the civil war, of the dictatorship. Moved to tears, the one who was the victim of an attempted break-in at his home explained: “You can’t imagine the number of times when I pass the Gare de Lyon and I look at this bench, I tell me: ‘It’s thanks to you, Mr. Bench, that I’m here. Because he wanted a better life’, before specifying: ‘He taught us to love France viscerally, but also not to. not forget our roots. We can do both. one does not prevent the other.
With modesty, the 55-year-old host then spoke about his mourning. “I miss him but that’s in the order of things,” he said before analyzing: “When you lose a parent, it’s difficult, but you also have your children. We forgive your parents. parents, we tell ourselves that they did what they could and we try to be better. It’s not easy every day, but that doesn’t matter.
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