Paris — French billionaire Olivier Dassault was killed on Sunday in a helicopter crash, a police source said, with President Emmanuel Macron paying tribute to the conservative politician.

Dassault was the eldest son of late French billionaire industrialist Serge Dassault, whose Dassault Aviation builds the Rafale fighter jets and owns Le Figaro newspaper...

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