A tribute to a communist resistance fighter and foreigner shot by the Nazi occupiers in the presence of the representative of a party founded by supporters of the Vichy regime, this is not is not trivial. The leader of the National Rally (RN) Marine Le Pen nevertheless made it known through her entourage, this Monday, February 19, that she would participate in the pantheonization ceremony of Missak and Mélinée Manouchian, which will take place on Wednesday.
In an interview published by Humanity in his edition this Monday, Emmanuel Macron nevertheless confided that he was personally unfavorable to the arrival of the far-right party. HAS”As for tribute to Robert Badinter from which the elected representatives of the RN were absent, the spirit of decency and the relationship with history should lead them to make a choice. I fight the ideas of the RN and I even defeated it twice. The far-right forces would be advised not to be present, given the nature of the fight in [Missak] Manouchian“, he explained.
By attackingthe outrageous remarks of the President of the Republic“, the president of the RN group at the National Assembly, who received a protocol invitation, declared that she fully intended to go “at the ceremony of solemn homage to the Nation» to the Armenian resistance fighter and his wife. On the social networka serious political fault and, more serious, an unforgivable moral fault» by Emmanuel Macron. As for Louis Alliot, the RN mayor of Perpignan, he affirmed on TF1 that his party had its place at the entry ceremony into the Pantheon of communist activists, believing that he did not have HAS”no reason to retreat on these subjects HAS”. HAS”Pantheonization reveals the sacred, ultimately republican, character of the character, and is aimed at all French people, whatever their origin, condition or opinions.“, he added.
Missak Manouchian and his wife Mélinée – as well as twenty-three of their comrades in arms who will be honored with a commemorative plaque – will enter the Pantheon in what Emmanuel Macron described as a “act of recognition» of the communist and foreign resistance to the Nazi occupier. HAS”It’s a way of bringing in [au Panthéon] all forms of internal Resistance, some of which have been forgotten for too long“, specifies the President of the Republic in Humanity. The national secretary of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, also said he was in favor of the members of the RN renouncing their participation in the ceremony, Monday on RTL, sending Marine Le Pen back to HAS”his ancestorsWhose, “in history”have according to him “contributed to this [que] be shot» those to whom the Republic must pay homage.