Friday, August 15, 2014

Landing in Provence. Holland thanked the African soldiers – West France

Landing in Provence. Holland thanked the African soldiers – West France

Francois Hollande called to Africans that they had brought to France and Europe by participating in the landing in Provence which he celebrated the 70th anniversary aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.



“Making the South” what he “given in 1944″

“We must now in turn, France, Europe, go to the south it has been able to make in the summer of 1944 “, launched the French head of state in a speech on flight of the nuclear aircraft carrier deck, cruising off Toulon.

Speaking Serval military operation, launched by France in Mali in January 2013 but the crisis in Gaza, Libya and Syria arms delivery by France to Kurdish fighter in Iraq, the head of state stressed the duty of “solidarity” face “enemy” still “we must defeat: fanaticism, intolerance, racism and barbarism”

The salvation is from the south

“This is the South, yes southern Europe owes its salvation and we must never forget” , has insisted he face a hundred veterans disembarkation Provence including some veterans “Army of Africa” ​​, Algerians, Moroccans and Tunisians, and fifteen Heads of State and Government in Africa for most.

Francois Hollande spoke at length about this “armed mixed, composite, cosmopolitan, which brought together both those of Brest and those of Bamako, those in London and those in Dakar, those of Algiers and those of Fort de-France “.

” These are in their diversity, the liberators of August 1944 “ which ” formed one army, the army of freedom, and wore only a single flag, the tricolor, the universal rights “ is he stressed.

This “hero of Provence” have allowed France to regain its sovereignty, “to sit at the table of winners in Berlin May 8, 1945″ and become “permanent member of the United Nations” , said President Holland.

“Living Together”

“A African youth, I want to tell him that we do not forget the sacrifice of old and that France knows what it owes them although it took time, too much time to draw all the consequences in terms of empowerment and recognition “ is he chained.

As for ” French youth from immigrant ‘ they are, according to him, “heirs of this story» “they can be justly proud” .

“Yesterday, it was to liberate the country today, it is to live together in the Republic “ is he started to address.

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