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Second World War: for the 80th anniversary of the Liberation, Emmanuel Macron delivers a tribute to the resistance fighters
The president kicked off the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of France, Sunday April 7. He paid tribute to the resistance fighters in the Alps and went to the house in Izieu (Ain), where children were rounded up.
(franceinfo)
The president kicked off the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of France, Sunday April 7. He paid tribute to the resistance fighters in the Alps and went to the house in Izieu (Ain), where children were rounded up.
In front of the graves of the Glières resistance fighters, at the Morette necropolis (Haute-Savoie), Emmanuel Macron pays tribute to the resistance fighters from all walks of life who, 80 years ago, took up arms against Nazism. The president saluted the memory of the resistance fighters “united in the same fight against Nazism, fight for freedom”.
The Glières plateau is an emblematic place of French resistance where nearly 465 resistance fighters lived under the occupation. After the call for the dead and the greetings of the standard bearers, Emmanuel Macron spoke with one of the last surviving resistance fighters.
Commemorations kick off
On Sunday April 7, he also went to Ain, to commemorate the roundup of 44 Jewish children by the Germans in the Izieu house in April 1944. In Glières then in Izieu, the president led a day of ceremony which kicks off the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation.
