the president of the United States paid tribute to American soldiers of World War I

American President Joe Biden paid tribute, on Sunday June 9, to the American soldiers who fell in France, during a ceremony which also allows him, indirectly, to scratch his predecessor and rival Donald Trump.

On the last day of his trip to France, partly devoted to commemorating the Allied Landings of 1944, the president this time paid tribute to the memory of the Americans who died in combat during the First World War, at the Belleau Wood cemetery (Aisne).

The 81-year-old Democrat laid a wreath and paused for a moment before making the sign of the cross. The site has 2,289 tombs, many of them marines died in the summer of 1918, during a fierce battle lasting more than three weeks in Belleau Wood, considered a turning point in the conflict.