The city of Paris remembered this Sunday, August 25, its liberation 80 years ago, with a tribute to its inhabitants who resisted four years of Nazi occupation and with calls not to forget the past and to continue fighting “hatred” to avoid “future tragedies.”
He August 25, 1944most of General Leclerc’s 2nd Armored Division entered the French capital after More than 1,500 days of German occupation and after a week of strikes, barricades and street battles led by the resistance.
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“It happened 80 years ago, Paris was liberated. This liberation was first and foremost the work of its people,” stressed Parisian Mayor Anne Hidalgo during the official ceremony.
Since last Monday, tributes have been taking place in a city that is preparing to host the next Wednesday Paralympic Gameswhose torch arrived in the capital on Sunday during the ceremony.
During the tribute, A parade of military vehicles was seen period that followed one of the routes that Leclerc’s men followed when they entered the south of Paris, in front of thousands of spectators.
Music bands, concerts, a popular dance and even a ringing of bells already took place on Saturday to remember the atmosphere in the capital on August 24, 1944, when the The first soldiers of the 2nd DB on the eve of Liberation.
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“Paris became a celebration, a celebration of freedom for all peoples (…) The streets of Montevideo danced with joy that night, when they learned that Paris had been liberated,” the French president stressed, Emmanuel Macron.
The commemoration is being held this year in a context of the rise of the extreme right in the European Union and Franceas the war in Ukraine to repel the Russian invasion enters its third year of fighting.
(With information from AFP)
August 25, 2024: Paris celebrates the 80th anniversary of its Liberation with parades and tributes like here, from Porte d’Orléans to Place Denfert-Rochereau (14th)! pic.twitter.com/xWYrgnPzI7
— Paris (@Paris) August 25, 2024
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