A few weeks after the Barnier government gave up on the project of opening a terrorism memorial museum in Mont-Valérien, Emmanuel Macron indicated this Monday, January 6 that it would finally see the light of day.
Emmanuel Macron has decided in favor of the creation of the terrorism memorial museum at Mont-Valérien in Suresnes, BFMTV learned from consistent sources, confirming the information from France Info.
According to our information, the President of the Republic indicated his wish to complete this project during an interview with Élisabeth Pelsez, former interministerial delegate for victim assistance and general director of the prefiguration mission of the Memorial Museum. of terrorism, and Henry Rousso, historian and president of this mission.
An outcry
This project announced by Emmanuel Macron in 2018 and designed from 2019 by the magistrate and the historian around a public interest group (GIP) was to see the light of day by 2027 before the government of Michel Barnier decided, a few hours after its censorship, on December 6 to stop it for budgetary reasons.
This memorial museum, whose total cost is estimated at 95 million euros, must cover the attacks perpetrated on French soil from the mid-1970s to the present day.
An announcement before the commemorations
This decision had at the time provoked a lot of reactions of incomprehension such as that of the former Paris prosecutor, François Molins or the president of the association of victims of November 13, Arthur Denouveaux. The city of Paris had also voted on a wish to request the continuation of the project.
This announcement comes as a sequence of commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the Islamist terrorist attacks against Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher de la Porte de Vincennes opens this Tuesday, January 7.
Mathieu Coache with Florent Bascoul
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