The scaffolder Azzedine Hedna, “the sun of Notre-Dame”, has left us

Azzedine Hedna, a scaffolder appreciated by everyone on the Notre-Dame de Paris construction site, died last weekend at his home at the age of 64. Of Moroccan origin, he will be buried in Casablanca on Thursday. But first, a tribute will be paid to him this Wednesday.

Azzedine left a few weeks before the reopening of the cathedral, which had been under rehabilitation for more than five years after being ravaged by a fire on April 15, 2019. He who liked to repeat to his colleagues that he would retire after the delivery of the Notre-Dame construction site. “It was the high point of his career, his last project,” confides to the newspaper The Parisian Ludovic Lebeau, deputy general director of the public establishment in charge of the restoration of the cathedral. “He always told me: Notre Dame is the pride of my life. He was so happy to be there,” adds Marie Parant, restorer of the cathedral’s murals.