Before Emmanuel Macron in Pithiviers, the Prime Minister gave a speech this afternoon on the site of the old velodrome in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne attended the traditional ceremony in the morning on the site of the former Vélodrome d’Hiver, in the presence in particular of the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo. Don’t forget, never forget!”she launched.
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“80 years ago, France was lost and committed the irreparable“said Ms. Borne, for whom”these days of July, as during the roundups that followed, France lost a bit of its soul“.
“Courage is in recognizing it and commemorating it“, she continued, adding that “the fight against antisemitism never stops“.
This afternoon, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron will inaugurate, in the company of survivors, a new place of memory in the old station of Pithiviers (Loiret), a hundred kilometers south of Paris. Accompanied by several personalities, including Serge Klarsfeld, the survivor of the camps Ginette Kolinka, or even the CEO of the SNCF Jean-Pierre Farandou, Emmanuel Macron is expected at 3 p.m. in the small station which has not welcomed any more travelers since the end of the 1960s and which has just been transformed into a museum by the Shoah Memorial.
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