French President Emmanuel Macron presided this Monday at the V-E Day ceremony, which commemorates the defeat inflicted on Nazi Germany in World War II, in the midst of a strong security apparatus in Paris.
“The French Republic, by definition, is neither bad nor catastrophic, it is necessary, vital and just,” Macron said, recalling the leaders of the French Resistance in a V-E Day speech praising the Allied successes in World War II. against a background of social division and discontent caused by the approval of a controversial welfare reform.
Solemn actions began in Paris, where the head of state paid tribute to General and former President Charles de Gaulle, the central figure of the French resistance during the Nazi occupation, laying a wreath of flowers at his statue.
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