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“We say thank you to them”: at Mont-Valérien, the vigil paying tribute to Manouchian between emotion and politics

2024-02-21T10:04:10.279Z

Highlights: Hundreds of people attended the vigil honoring Missak Manouchian and 23 of his comrades-in-arms on Tuesday evening, February 20. “I hope a certain person who I don't want to name won't be here tomorrow. I think it would be an insult to the immigrants who died for France,” asserts Georges Duffau-Epstein. An evening, which mixed emotions and positions against the presence of Marine Le Pen at the entry ceremony into the Pantheon.


Hundreds of people attended the vigil honoring Missak Manouchian and 23 of his comrades-in-arms on Tuesday evening, February 20.


“I hope a certain person who I don't want to name won't be here tomorrow.

» The words of Georges Duffau-Epstein, son of Joseph Epstein, resistance fighter and leader of Missak Manouchian, reflect the feeling of several political guests at the vigil of tribute to the Manouchian group organized at Mont-Valérien (Hauts-de-Seine), Tuesday February 20 in the evening, and chaired by the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces, Patricia Miralles.

An evening, which mixed emotions and positions against the presence of Marine Le Pen at the entry ceremony into the Pantheon of Missak and Mélinée Manouchian, this Wednesday February 21 afternoon.

“The presence of the RN bothers me,” asserts Georges Duffau-Epstein.

I think it would be an insult to the immigrants who died for France.

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Source: leparis

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