“Neither Pétain, nor Laval, nor Bousquet, nor Darquier de Pellepoix, none of these wanted to save Jews”, insists Emmanuel Macron

“Those who indulge in these lies are planning to destroy the Republic.” During his speech in Pithiviers (Loiret) in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Vel’d’Hiv roundup, Sunday July 17, Emmanuel Macron denounced “a new form of historical revisionism, even negationism” on the responsibility of the Vichy regime.

The Head of State inaugurated, in the company of survivors, a new place of memory in the old station of Pithiviers, from where left eight convoys for Auschwitz-Birkenau. “The French State deliberately failed in all the duties of the fatherland of the Enlightenment and of human rights.he said, emphasizing the role of the French state and the Vichy regime, and adding: “We are not done with anti-Semitism.”

“Hasn’t it been thought good just recently to reopen a subject that has long been settled by historians and jurists alike, on the participation of Pétain and the men of Vichy in the implementation of the final solution” , denounced the French president. “Let us repeat it here with force and with due respect to commentators who claim to be revisionists: neither Pétain, nor Laval, nor Bousquet nor Darquier de Pellepoix, none of them wanted to save Jews. It is a falsification of history than to tell.”

“To look our truth in the face is not to weaken France, it is to recognize everything so as not to reproduce it”, defended Emmanuel Macron, applauded by the public.