Missak Manouchian was buried until now in the small cemetery of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), under a simple tombstone maintained by the Le Souvenir Français association.
This Tuesday evening, his remains will be vigiled at Mont-Valérien (Hauts-de-Seine), where he was shot with almost all of his comrades in arms, on February 21, 1944 after a mock trial.
“Symbolically”, it is emphasized at the Élysée, he will thus have “joined the dead for the France of Mont-Valérien”, before the ultimate recognition of the Republic.
On Wednesday, 80 years to the day after his execution, Missak Manouchian, worker and poet, “communist, Armenian, internationalist”, summarizes Denis Peschanski, historian of foreign resistance, will enter the Pantheon accompanied by his great love Mélinée.
And with them, symbolically, a plaque bearing their name, the 22 other members of the Manouchian group.
Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Italians, Spanish, Romanians and French, who fought together against the Nazi occupiers in France.
To these great men, the grateful homeland.
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