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The July 14 military parade will take place this year

2021-06-05T18:49:18.893Z


Because of the Covid-19 epidemic, the parade was replaced in 2020 by a restricted ceremony on the Place de la Concorde. The soldiers sent to Mali and nuclear submariners will be in the spotlight.


After a restricted ceremony last year, Covid-19 obliges, the traditional military parade of the national day of July 14 will take place this year thanks to a decline in the epidemic, announced Friday, June 4, its organizers.

We are in a rather favorable context of coming out of the health crisis.

Provided that it continues, this dynamic should allow us a return to the classic, with a beautiful July 14 on the Champs Élysées,

”explained to AFP the military governor of Paris (GMP), General Christophe Abad.

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In 2020, the format of the parade was replaced by a restricted ceremony on the Place de la Concorde, with special tribute to the soldiers and caregivers mobilized during the health crisis.

The absence of a parade in France on July 14 was a first since the end of World War II.

25,000 people welcomed

This year, the stands are expected to accommodate around 25,000 people.

The seated stands will be occupied without gauge, respecting barrier gestures.

The standing stands will be occupied at the rate of one person every 4 m2.

The general public should be allowed on the Champs Élysées.

The parade will mobilize some 5,000 participants, including 4,300 soldiers on foot, 71 planes, 25 helicopters, 221 vehicles and 200 horses of the Republican Guard.

"Winning the future"

Winning the future

” will be the theme of this 2021 edition. A double reference to “

the collective capacity of the Nation to overcome the difficulties linked to the health crisis

” and “

for the armed forces, to the fact of being turned towards commitments harder, said to be high intensity, by relying on high-tech equipment

”.

The Griffon armored personnel carrier, a new generation personnel carrier intended to replace the front armored vehicle (VAB), will parade for the first time, like the new CaRaPACE armored tanker, deployed in the Sahel.

European Takuba forces in the spotlight

In the air, the new light reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft (ALSR), used to collect intelligence, will take part for the first time in the traditional air parade opened by the Patrouille de France.

Among the troops in the spotlight will be the group of European special forces Takuba, initiated by France to accompany the Malian forces in combat and to which eight nations contribute (Belgium, Estonia, Italy, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Sweden and France).

However, its cooperation operations had been temporarily suspended since Thursday, like all joint Franco-Malian operations, in reaction to a second coup d'état in nine months in Mali.

Read also: Mali angers its neighbors and France

The Chadian Marching Regiment (RMT) will open the parade of the Army on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the "

Koufra Oath

" pronounced in March 1941 by Colonel Leclerc to the troops to which the RMT is the heir: "

Swear not to lay down your arms until our colors float on Strasbourg Cathedral

”.

On the Navy side, honor to the submariners, with the presence of the crew of the nuclear attack submarine (SNA) Emeraude, returning from an eight-month long mission in the very strategic Indo-Pacific region, including one passage in the South China Sea.

The crew of the first new-generation Suffren ANS, which will go on mission in the fall, will also be invited.

Read also: Le

Suffren

, a huge technological challenge

The Air Force will parade its new Space Command, as well as aviators engaged at the beginning of the year in the Skyros mission, during which four Rafale, two A400Ms and an A330 Phoenix refueller have made stops. in India, United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Greece.

Read also: France orders 12 Rafale for its Air Force

On the occasion of its 60th anniversary, the Adapted Military Service (SMA), a socio-professional integration device for the benefit of young ultra-seafarers, will be represented, as well as the Army Health Service (SSA), very mobilized from the start of the health crisis.

The parade, lasting about two hours, will end in music with a choir of 120 “

young people engaged

”: military high school students, members of the civic service, voluntary military services (SMV) and adapted, volunteer firefighters. At the end of the parade, several activities will be offered to Ile-de-France residents on the Esplanade des Invalides and in several other districts of the capital.

Source: lefigaro

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