2024-02-05 13:21:08
The Elysée announced, Monday February 5, that it was considering a “memorial time” in the future for “French victims of the bombings in Gaza”after the national tribute which will be chaired on Wednesday by Emmanuel Macron for the French victims of the attack carried out on October 7, 2023 by Hamas in Israel.
Wednesday’s ceremony at Les Invalides, “aims to pay tribute to the victims of a major terrorist attack committed by Hamas”, the French presidency told journalists. It is “42 fellow citizens dead” in the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement, which resulted in the death of more than 1,160 people, mostly civilians. As well as three French “still missing and presumed hostages”.
“Nevertheless, it is obvious that we owe the same emotion and the same dignity to the French victims of the bombings in Gaza, and this tribute will be paid to them at another time”added the Elysée in response to a journalist, explaining that the terms of this “memorial time” would be fixed later.
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LFI “welcomes” the Elysée declaration
“It is a decision that we welcome and a request that I addressed to the President of the Republic at the beginning of November 2023. We will fully associate ourselves with this tribute. We must pay tribute to all the victims of war crimes in the Middle East and work for peace”declared Mathilde Panot, the head of the “rebellious” deputies, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The LFI deputies wish in any case to go to Wednesday’s tribute to the Invalides, while families refuse the arrival of the movement.
The Elysée responded that it was a “republican ceremony” to which, according to the protocol in force since a decree of 1989, parliamentarians are invited. “It’s up to everyone to assess the appropriateness or not of their presence since the families spoke out and expressed strong emotion”reported an advisor to AFP.
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