“If I have the right to say, in French today/My pain and my hope, my anger and my joy (…) It is because these foreigners, as they are still called (…) These foreigners knew what was their homeland.
» It was with these verses from Paul Éluard to the Manouchian group that Philippe Bouyssou, the mayor (PCF) of Ivry-sur-Seine, closed his speech.
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This Wednesday, February 7, the rain ran down the cheeks of the fifteen flag bearers from all over France and gathered at the Parisian cemetery of Ivry, impassive in front of the bust of the Armenian resistance fighter Missak Manouchian.
On February 21, 1944, in Mont-Valérien, 23 resistance fighters were shot, including 20 immigrants.
Referred to as the “Manouchian-Boczov Group”, they were made famous by a red Nazi propaganda poster.
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