Patrick Roy was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 politician, a member of the National Assembly. He represented the 19th constituency

Constituency (France)

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 of the Nord département, and was a member of the French Socialist Party

Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...

 (PSF). He was also the mayor of Denain

Denain

It is the largest of 39 communes which comprise the association of communes of Porte du Hainaut, with a total population of 147,989, as of 1999. Denain had a population of 20,360, on a land area of 11.52 km² .-References:* -External links:...

.

He was known for the colorful clothes he wore at the National Assembly and his love of heavy metal music

Heavy metal music

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, a musical style he defended on various occasions during the debates concerning the Hadopi

HADOPI law

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 law or the controversy about the Hellfest

Hellfest Summer Open Air

Hellfest is an annual music festival which takes place in Clisson, France in mid-June. It is held within the Val de Moine sport complex in Clisson, approximately 35 km south-east of the city of Nantes, and approximately 400 km south-west of the nation's capital Paris. Billed as an "extreme music...

 festival. On 5 June 2010, he joined the French metal band Mass Hysteria

Mass Hysteria (band)

- History :Created in 1993, the band recorded their first album, Le Bien-être et la Paix , only four years later. After this album, Mass Hysteria gained an important audience for their kind of music in France.In the media, Mass Hysteria is known for some controversies and...

 on stage during the Metallurgicales festival in Denain.

In November 2010, Roy revealed that he was suffering from a digestive cancer. In February 2011 he announced that he will come back to the National Assembly on March 15th and he did it, thanking the other congresswomen and congressmen for their support.

Patrick Roy died in Valenciennes

Valenciennes

Valenciennes is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It lies on the Scheldt river. Although the city and region had seen a steady decline between 1975 and 1990, it has since rebounded...

on 3 May 2011 from pancreatic cancer. He was 53.