At the end of the July 14 parade, President Emmanuel Macron lingered for a few minutes.
The link with the armies is woven through small attentions: towards the families of the soldiers, towards the young people of the training schools, towards the soldiers proud to have been able to descend the Champs-Élysées on the occasion of the National Day.
Head of the armed forces, Emmanuel Macron is used to these exchanges.
But Covid obliges, the discussions took place masked, under the gaze in particular of the Chief of Staff, General Lecointre, who is also preparing to leave his post next week.
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If the 2020 edition was limited to a tour of the Place de la Concorde, the 2021 parade has returned to tradition.
He also projected himself into the future by staging some of the “
high intensity
”
capabilities of
armies or their external operations.
A little less than 80 special forces soldiers, coming from 8 different European countries and engaged in the Takuba task force in the Sahel, paved the way.
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