Celestino Alfonso will become the first citizen of this nationality to enter the secular temple of French glories. The communist fighter, executed by the Nazis in 1944, belonged to the network of the Armenian Missak Manoukian.
France, at the initiative of President Emmanuel Macron, will settle a debt with foreigners who gave their blood for a country that did not always treat them as it should. In a letter written in French a few hours before being murdered, and addressed to his family, he said: “I am nothing more than a soldier who dies for France"