L-R: Olivier Fauris, Accountable Manager, COO & Head of Control Centre; Jérôme Pin, General Secretary & Deputy CEO; Frank Halmes, CEO; Antje Voss, Head of Marketing, PR & Member Office; René Closter, President; Didier Dandrifosse, Head of Medical;
Credit: LAR
This week, Luxembourg Air Rescue (LAR) and its German counterpart DRF Luftrettung received the Adenauer-De Gaulle Prize for their exceptional contribution to the cross-border transport of COVID-19 patients at the height of the first pandemic wave.
During an official ceremony held at Neumünster Abbey in the presence of Luxembourg's Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Jean Asselborn, Germany's Deputy Minister for European Affairs, Michael Roth, and the French Ambassador to Luxembourg, Bruno Perdu, awarded the 2020 Adenauer-De Gaulle Prize to the two winners.
René Closter, CEO and President of LAR, stated: "This prize is awarded not only to LAR as an organisation, but above all to LAR staff who, in a pandemic period, are ready to intervene day and night to save lives, in Luxembourg, in the Greater Region and the whole world".
This prize had already been awarded in December 2020, but the ceremony had to be postponed due to health restrictions.
