[HIGHLIGHTS] Missak Manouchian, “preferably a Frenchman”, enters the Pantheon: behind the scenes of the ceremony

Missak Manouchian was buried until now in the small cemetery of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), under a simple tombstone. This Tuesday evening, his remains will be vigiled at Mont-Valérien, where he was shot with almost all of his comrades in arms, on February 21, 1944 after a mock trial.

“Symbolically”, it is emphasized at the Élysée, he will thus have “joined the dead for the France of Mont- Valérien”