Linda Ventura, the daughter of Lino Ventura and inspiring snowmates, died at the age of 66

Linda Ventura, the disabled girl of actor Lino Ventura, at the origin of the creation of the Perce-Neige Foundation for help for disabled people, died Tuesday at the age of 66, said her family on Thursday.

Linda Ventura, who lived in the House Perce-Neige de Baracé (Maine-et-Loire) “died on Tuesday, a cardiac arrest at the age of 66,” Christophe Lasserre-Ventura told AFP, grandson of the actor who died in 1987 and nephew of Linda Ventura.

Linda Ventura was “the inspirer of this fight that my grandfather led throughout her life for the cause of mental handicap”, underlines Christophe Lasserre-Ventura, who presides over the Perce-Neige Foundation.

“In the 1960s, the handicap was taboo. When he speaks on television, he does not know very well how the public will react, ”he says about his grandfather. “It was an extremely courageous act. But this message carried by a star found a very positive echo with the general public and helped to evolve the look at disability, “he underlines.

The Perce-Neige Foundation and the filmmaker Artus announced Thursday the launch of the Foundation, a little extra thing, intended to create holiday homes adapted to disabled people.