Emmanuel Kochel, former consul general of Edinburgh and director of Scottish French Institute, dies

He became the French ambassador to Paraguay in 2020, a year after he left the consulate general in Edinburgh and was director of the French Institute in Scotland from 2015 to 2019. Emmanuel Cocher died on Friday, May 6 in Paraguay at the age of 53.

News of his death sparked a wave of grief on social networks, with many colleagues at Dock d’Orsay paying tribute to him. The Scottish prime minister also had a word for the former consul general in Edinburgh. “Sad to hear this news. Emmanuel was...