It is an alley in the Champs-Élysées gardens, on the east side, in the heart of Paris.
On Saturday, the socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo will give him the name of the charismatic commander Ahmad Shah Massoud.
Ahmad Massoud, his 31-year-old son, will be there.
With Paris, he wants to "
honor this fighter for peace who fought for the freedom of
Afghanistan
and against obscurantism
".
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Reporting in the Panjshir this summer, Bernard-Henri Lévy met the son Massoud.
It is there that between them was born the idea that Paris honors the commander among all the defenders of freedom whose names are engraved on the plates of the capital.
The writer called Anne Hidalgo.
“
She immediately subscribed,
” he says.
"
But if things went so quickly, so effectively, after taking the path of local democracy, it is thanks to Arnaud Ngatcha
".
The latter will be in the first row on Saturday, "
proud of this sign sent to the world
".
He is one of the relatives of the mayor of Paris, his deputy in charge of international affairs
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