ABOARD THE CHARLES DE Gaulle (France) (AFP) – Francois Hollande exalted Friday glorious past of the French troops and African initiated 70 years ago to the day, in the Provence landings
<. p> Memorial Mont Faron on the heights of Toulon, then in the morning, late afternoon, aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle cruising under sunny skies off the head of state celebrated the landing episode often overlooked but critical to the liberation of France and Europe from the Nazis.
Speaking of those “glorious pages” and the “legacy” of the “hero” who ” contributed to the resurrection of our country “, he has learned many lessons for the present times.
In the economic and social difficulties that passes through France, confirmed Thursday by the INSEE announced zero growth in the second quarter as the first, and has opposed his desire to maintain the status of the country in the world.
“France, fifth economic power in the world (…) means, by its reforms, remain at this level, “said Francois Hollande, as to rule out doubts about the ability of the executive to lead the country out of the crisis.
Meeting between two commemorations for lunch at the Fort of (Var), he and Prime Minister Manuel Valls “recognized the need to look at these figures with lucidity and face the situation with fighting,” he told a relative of the head of state .
Then another and another level aboard the Charles de Gaulle, Francois Hollande called to Africans that they had brought to France and Europe by participating in the landing Provence.
“We have now, in turn, France, Europe, go to the south it was able to bring in the summer of 1944,” he told the head of state in a speech on the flight deck of nuclear aircraft carrier deck
-.’s salvation came from the south –
“This is the South, so the southern Europe owes its salvation and it must never forget, “he insisted he face a dozen heads of state and government, mostly in Africa, and dozens of veterans the “Army of Africa”, Algerians, Moroccans and Tunisians.
A twenty African countries should be represented aboard the aircraft carrier to underscore the role of the “Army of Africa” the landing in Provence.
As a sign of this North-South solidarity, Francois Hollande spoke Serval military operation launched by France in Mali in January 2013, but attacks from Gaza, the Libya and Syria or delivery of weapons by Paris Kurdish fighters in Iraq.
There has he again emphasized a duty of “solidarity” to face the “enemy” always “we must defeat: fanaticism, intolerance, racism and barbarism.”
Throughout the day, thousands of spectators attended from the coast to a spectacular aerial display and with the participation of naval Rafale of the Patrouille de France. It ended with a maritime parade along the Charles de Gaulle in Toulon harbor.
Unlike the commemorations of D-Day June 6 in Normandy –marquées by a handshake between the master Kremlin Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Porochenko– this appointment was, however, remain essentially Provençal memorial even if the state dinner hosted aboard the Charles de Gaulle could be another opportunity for some diplomatic asides.
August 15, 1944, ten weeks after “Overlord” in Normandy, about 850 vessels landed 450,000 men on the beaches of the Var, including 250,000 French of “Army B”, under the command of General de Lattre de Tassigny. It was European French North Africa but also soldiers ‘native’ colonies (Senegalese soldiers and Algerian and Moroccan goumiers tabors, porpoises in the Pacific and Caribbean).
“By their sacrifice these men have developed between our countries and Africa a blood bond that nothing can undo, “said Francois Hollande.
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