Valls to the French: “Come” on Sunday event – Le Point

Valls to the French: "Come" on Sunday event – Le Point

Manuel Valls Saturday urged the French to “come in large numbers” on Sunday march to be held in Paris and many cities of France to honor the victims of the bombings that killed 17 people in France between Wednesday and Friday. “This will be an unprecedented event (…) to be strong, dignified, to show the power and dignity of the French people will shout his love of freedom and tolerance. Come!” said the Prime Minister, during the presentation of his vows in Evry (Essonne), its electoral stronghold.

“Everyone must come to the event,” said he insisted on the grounds of “national unity,” and giving assurances on “security” that will surround the event, after a crisis meeting at the Elysee Saturday morning. “The answer must be that of the rule of law, but also the French,” said he said.

“Terrorism wants us terrions us home”

“Terrorism (…) wants to break us, wants us terrions us home. The best answer is the one that gives the French people since Wednesday by spontaneous mobilizations throughout the cities,” Manuel Valls estimated.

On Sunday, the government and the French president will be surrounded by “many heads of state and government from Europe, from across the globe, as representative of the Arab and African those Muslim countries that are equally if not the first victims of terrorism, “said Mr Valls.

Islam,” religious tolerance “

” This cry of freedom, it is normal that it takes place in Paris because France still has a particular message, the values ​​of 1789, “he added.

Evry, “multi-faith and multicultural city,” the prime minister also spoke about the “culture of compatriots and Muslim (who) also experience what happens”: “This is the message the Perhaps most important to pass: the refusal of the amalgam “between jihadism and Islam,” which wants a religion of tolerance. ”