VIDEO. Emmanuel Macron surrounded by the chiefs of staff of the armed forces after the shock forum of the military

At the platform signed by the military on April 21, Emmanuel Macron chose to respond through a symbolic image.

The president chatted for a moment under the cameras with the chiefs of staff of the armies, at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe, at the end of the commemoration of the 76th anniversary of the Victory of May 8, 1945.

A displayed unit which consolidates him in his position of chief of the armies, a few days after the controversial publication of a column published by Valeurs Actuelles, in which "twenty generals, a hundred senior officers and more than a thousand other soldiers ”urge Emmanuel Macron to defend patriotism.

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Earlier in the day, the Head of State went, as soon as he got out of the plane that brought him back from the European summit in Porto, in front of the statue of General de Gaulle on the avenue des Champs-Élysées, to deposit a wreath of flowers. He then joined the Arc de Triomphe to commemorate May 8 in front of the tomb of the unknown soldier in restricted public, due to the health crisis. In particular were present the head of government, Jean Castex, the presidents of the Senate and the Assembly, the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly, the two former presidents of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the chiefs of the army staff.