Mont Valérien degraded by an anti-health pass inscription, Macron denounces “pure stupidity” – LCI

“I am outraged.” Geneviève Darrieussecq, the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Armed Forces, announced this Monday morning that Mont Valérien had been degraded during the night. A complaint will be filed.

An imposing “Anti Pass” inscription, with the two “s” drawn to resemble the acronym “SS”, was discovered by the authorities. This inscription on the Memorial is 50 meters long.

Monday afternoon, Emmanuel Macron lamented “an insult to the memory of our heroes and to the memory of the Nation”, ensuring that “the authors ser[aient] found then judged “.

From Budapest, where he is visiting, Emmanuel Macron added a layer, denouncing an act “unworthy”. “To defile this place is unworthy and no fight justifies that. It is attacking the memory of our fighters, our history, it is basically confusing everything. It is pure stupidity in in all respects, add to a form of desecration. “, strongly criticized the head of state.

“The prefect condemns with the greatest firmness these unworthy degradations of this place, symbol of resistant and fighting France. The police forces are mobilized to identify and find the perpetrators”, reacted the prefecture of Hauts-de-Seine.

“No cause justifies touching this unique place in our national memory. It’s unforgivable, added Geneviève Darrieussecq. We will file a complaint “. “To attack Mont Valérien is to attack our national memory. To attack our national memory is to crack the cement of the Republic. Nothing excuses neither stupidity nor hatred”, declared for her part Florence Parly.

This Memorial to fighting France, a solemn monument inaugurated on June 18, 1960 by General de Gaulle in a clearing located in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), to the west of Paris, has become the Mecca of France’s memory. free. Catholics, Jews or atheists, French, Armenians, Spaniards, Hungarians, Poles, Italians and even Germans: more than 1000 shot fell on Mont Valérien.