REPORTING – The president compared the Landings and the war in Ukraine in a final attempt to mobilize his camp just before the June 9 election.
Special envoy to Omaha Beach (Calvados)
Even on a date with History, Emmanuel Macron is late. Customarily, the President of the Republic arrived around twenty minutes after the start time of the Franco-British ceremony, the first in which he participated on the Normandy coast for the 80th anniversary of the Landing, Thursday. Not enough to disturb the composure of the British, who started without him. Nor the meditation and emotion perceptible throughout this day during which the Allies together commemorated the sacrifice of the freedom fighters, on the places where, eight decades ago, the liberation from Nazi occupation began, in the sound of gunfire and bombs.
On the edge of Gold Beach (Calvados), King Charles III paid tribute in his speech to those “ who never came home “. “ British soldiers are our brothers in arms. And today we remember them », added Emmanuel Macron. The head of…
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