2023-07-08 21:48:05
He died 80 years ago. On July 8, 1943, Jean Moulin, hero of the Resistance, succumbed to his injuries in Metz (Moselle), on the train taking him to Berlin, after being tortured by the Gestapo. Many political figures paid tribute to him for the occasion this Saturday.
Starting with Emmanuel Macron: “80 years ago, Resistant, Jean Moulin succumbed to the tortures of the Gestapo without having said a word. For a free France”, writes the President of the Republic on Twitter, saluting the memory of the one whose “refusal of the Nazi horror, (the) love of the fatherland, (the) devotion to the Republic oblige us, we , his heirs.
80 years ago, Resistance fighter Jean Moulin succumbed to the tortures of the Gestapo without having said a word. For a free France.
His rejection of Nazi horror, his love of country, his devotion to the Republic oblige us, his heirs. pic.twitter.com/iKqDTAnVNJ
—Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) July 8, 2023
The Head of State had already paid tribute to the head of the National Council of the Resistance during a ceremony at the Memorial of the Montluc prison, where Jean Moulin was detained, on May 8. “Jean Moulin was a child of the Republic, a servant of the State, a soldier of France”, he had declared in particular.
” Never forget “
“Jean Moulin would die 80 years ago”, also wrote the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, on Twitter. “Here his admirable and tragic journey ended. The shadow army was losing its unifier, France was losing one of its heroes,” she said, adding that “our duty is never to forget his sacrifice.”
Jean Moulin died 80 years ago.
There his admirable and tragic career ended. The Army of Shadows was losing its unifier, France was losing one of its heroes.Our duty is never to forget his sacrifice. pic.twitter.com/ghD0IZImVM
— Élisabeth BORNE (@Elisabeth_Borne) July 8, 2023
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, for his part hoped that the example of Jean Moulin, who “gave his life for France, for the Republic, for freedom”, could “inspire every Frenchman”. “Eternal gratitude to this heroic man to whom we owe so much,” also commented the Secretary of State for Veterans Affairs and Memory, Patricia Mirallès.
On the right of the political spectrum, the president of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti, also called for inspiration from the “courage” of Jean Moulin, whose “sacrifice forever honors our country”.
Reacting to a tribute paid by the far-right polemicist Jean Messiha – at the origin of the pot of support for the family of the policeman who killed Nahel – the first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure denounced an attempt of appropriation of the memory of the Resistance. Those who “denied the existence of the gas chambers and made it a detail of history (…) will never enter the Pantheon,” he said.
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