This Wednesday, February 21, France Télévisions is changing its program schedule in order to broadcast Missak Manouchian's entry into the Pantheon.
The ceremony chaired by Emmanuel Macron will be covered live from 5:10 p.m. on France 2 and franceinfo, channel 27 of TNT.
This event thus led to the deprogramming of the afternoon broadcasts on France 2, namely “Affaire concluded”, “Everyone has their say”, and finally “Don’t forget the words”.
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The date of February 21 was not chosen at random: it was the day when, in 1944, Missak Manouchian was shot at the Mont Valérien fortress.
Eighty years later, in the presence of Emmanuel Macron and his widow Mélinée Manouchian, the communist resistance fighter will enter the Pantheon with twenty-three of his comrades in arms, an
“act of recognition”
of the communist and foreign resistance to the Nazi occupier.
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will also follow the event live in a special edition.
The presence of the RN in question
Emmanuel Macron spoke about the possible presence of the National Rally: “
The far-right forces would be inspired not to be present
,” he declared.
Despite the head of state's reservations, Marine Le Pen should respond to the tribute, according to her entourage.
The National Rally was indignant about X:
“Emmanuel Macron commits a serious political mistake and, more serious, an unforgivable moral mistake”
.
Monday on RTL, Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the Communist Party, announced that he would prefer that members of the RN not take part in the ceremony.