“
Twenty-three foreigners and yet our brothers.”
Thus Louis Aragon paid tribute to the shot of the Manouchian group, communist resistance fighters who fell at Mont-Valérien on February 21, 1944. Eighty years to the day after their execution by the Germans, Emmanuel Macron presides this Wednesday over the entry into the Pantheon of Missak Manouchian and his wife Mélinée.
His comrades in arms will also be honored symbolically, by the inscription of their names in the republican temple of “great men”
.
They had been made famous by the famous Red Poster put up at the time by Nazi propaganda and denouncing
the “army of crime”.
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The ceremony, which will begin at 6:30 p.m., will begin with a walk up rue Soufflot leading to the Panthéon.
The Foreign Legion soldiers carrying the coffins will make three stops, each corresponding to a chapter in the life of Missak Manouchian.
First the Armenian genocide, of which he was a survivor.
Then his arrival in France, including this worker…
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