the soldiers of the Republican Guard down the Champs Elysees July 14, 2016 in Paris during the traditional parade / AFP
More than 3,000 soldiers, Australians and New Zealanders have descended Thursday Champs-Elysées during a July 14 parade under the banner of “youth engagement” and under high surveillance because of the terrorist threat.
Rafale fighter aircraft, legionnaires, intelligence or marines specialists … all these soldiers are engaged in overseas operations or on national territory (Sentinel) in mobilization (30,000 men) unprecedented since the war in Algeria.
Highlight of the “show”, six Maori warriors of New Zealand have walked the fields in traditional dress, chest and bare feet despite temperatures than fresh, brandishing spears, the grimed face.
Six Maori warriors of New Zealand parade on Champs Elysee in traditional dress, waist and barefoot, July 14, 2016 in Paris / AFP
the Australians and New Zealanders were honored this year in tribute to their participation in the battle of the Somme in 1916, one of the deadliest the First World War.
Francois Hollande, who celebrated last July 14 of his mandate before the 2017 presidential election, attended the parade, alongside the New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, John Kerry.
A special tribute was paid this year to the commitment in all its forms, on threat of terrorist background in the military forces internal security, civic service or reserve.
the soldiers of the Republican Guard down the Champs Elysees July 14, 2016 in Paris during the traditional parade / AFP
the customs officers who participated once in 1919 in the parade, and the prison administration, for which it was a first, also down the Champs pitch.
These are customs that had controlled and led to the arrest of the alleged killer of the Jewish Museum in Brussels, French Mehdi Nemmouche. Supervisors of the Penitentiary also face a growing radicalization in prisons.
A total of 55 aircraft, 20 helicopters and 212 armored vehicles and flew over or down the Champs.
a tank with a doner Sperwer on the Champs Elysees July 14, 2016 in Paris during the traditional parade / AFP
the Leclerc tanks, notably absent from the 2015, have made a comeback in a track rumble. More original, the quads of a regiment of hussars specialized in intelligence have descended for the first time the Champs Elysees after a first commitment recently in the Sahel.
Francois Hollande said Wednesday strengthened the french military support to the Iraqis for the recovery of the city of Mosul, a stronghold of the Islamic State in Iraq group. France will however end in October Sangaris its operation in CAR, while holding 350 men there.
The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will be engaged for the last time in the fall in air operations the international coalition fighting the EI before a major technical shutdown for 18 months in 2017-18.
François Hollande college or pledged voluntary military service (VMS) and the civic Service in held blue, white, red, los parade July 14, 2016 in Paris / AFP
final note, hundreds of high school students, college students or incurred Service voluntary military (VMS) and the civic Service, in blue uniforms, white, red, sang the Marseillaise, some sign language before overflying the Patrouille de France in a tricolor plume.
public very family, and tourists from around the world, many waving tricolor flags, thronged the Champs for the parade which each year celebrates the French armies.
the fear of attacks was in all spirits, a few months after Paris and Brussels. “This year we asked the question in terms of security,” he told Isabelle, came with her two children 2 and 4 years.
More than 11,500 police and gendarmes were mobilized to secure the festivities. Excavations points had been installed at the edge of fields and garbage cans were filled with water bottles and umbrellas prohibited.
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