Live: commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv roundup

Published on: 07/17/2022 – 09:48 France commemorates on Sunday the 80th anniversary of the Roundup of Vel d’Hiv, symbol of the deportation of Jews under the Occupation in France. The former Vélodrome d’Hiver hosts the traditional ceremony in the presence of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne while Emmanuel Macron will inaugurate, later in the day, a new place of memory in the former station of Pithiviers (Loiret), where eight convoys left for Auschwitz-Birkenau. Follow our live. On July 16, 1942 and the following days, at the request of the German occupation forces, more than 13,000 Jews – including 4,115 children – were arrested at their homes in Paris and the suburbs by 9,000 French officials, including approximately 5,000 policemen under the orders of René Bousquet, chief of police of Vichy. Taken to the Vélodrome d’Hiver then to internment camps, most of them will be deported to death camps. To mark the 80th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv Roundup, several demonstrations are taking place this Sunday. Emmanuel Macron must in particular deliver an “offensive speech” against anti-Semitism, in the presence of survivors, in Pithiviers (Loiret). Follow the thread of this day of commemorations live (if the liveblog below does not appear, thank you to refresh the page).