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Emmanuel Macron in Lyon to preside over a ceremony on May 8 in tribute to Jean Moulin

2023-05-04T17:04:22.591Z


The Head of State will be in Lyon on Monday May 8 where he will preside over the commemorations of the 78th anniversary of the armistice of the Second World War by paying tribute to the French Resistance.


Le Figaro Lyon

Emmanuel Macron back in Lyon lands.

The head of state is expected in the city which was the cradle of his movement in 2017,

"as part of the commemorative ceremonies of the 78th anniversary of the Victory of May 8, 1945"

, next Monday, indicates the Elysee.

He will preside over a tribute to Jean Moulin, in the town where he was arrested in 1943, as well as to the French Resistance and to the victims of Nazi barbarism.

A still unclear program

According to information from BFM Lyon, the President of the Republic will be accompanied by his Minister of Justice, Éric Dupont-Moretti, and his Secretary of State to the Minister for the Armed Forces, in charge of Veterans Affairs and Memory, Patricia Miralles .

He should arrive in the capital of Gaul in the early afternoon, after the morning Parisian ceremonies.

Emmanuel Macron's program in Lyon is still vague, while each trip by the Head of State and his ministers has been accompanied by concerts of pans since the promulgation of the pension reform.

Pension reforms against which the Lyon demonstrations were very well attended.

The president could go to the Jean Moulin de Caluire memorial or to the Montluc prison, where the victims of the Nazi genocide were locked up during the war, then Klaus Barbie, "the butcher of Lyon" head of the local Gestapo, decades later.

Source: lefigaro

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