Manuel Valls Tuesday gave kickoff to the 70th anniversary of the Paris libérationde a tribute to the "victims" of police officers, the Paris uprising 19 August 1944 to celebrate, was the first act of rebellion against the German occupiers in the capital.
Having laid a wreath along with the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve memory of fallen police officers, the Prime Minister said that "courage" and "victims" of "persons capable of the brutality challenge was the" during a speech at the Prefecture of Police (PP) in Paris.
"That's almost 70 years took the Paris police in the recovery of our institutions and the restoration of democracy and the republican ideal should never cease to serve" at the ceremony, which also attended by the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.
Because of the German occupation of France and part of the police raid, including the Velodrome d'hiver, the time "when France lost its honor," said Manuel Valls, is also the origin of the liberation of the capital.
August 19, 1944, the day after the meeting of the three resistance movements to the police, around 3,000 policemen in civil strike for four days before the center of the city at 6:00.
You invest a scene after negotiating with riot police who occupy the prefecture on August 15, kidnap police commissioner, hoisted the French flag and sing the Marseillaise.
"The Police Department has the first public building is released, a symbol of the republican order is the beginning of the reconquest," Manuel Valls said.
After the rebellion, Colonel Rol-Tanguy decided, the French forces of the Interior (FFI), which he heads monitor.
- "We owe our freedom" -
Within a week of fierce fighting against the Germans in the dead capital of 167 police officers - give their name to one of the halls of the PP, "Room 167" "We owe our freedom," Valls said I quote a "badge of honor" that of the police wrote.
August 25, 1944, the day after the Second Armored Division of General Leclerc, to enter the capital, Paris is liberated.
"These are the words" Paris free, "non-Parisian. Belong not only to the French. Belonging to all people," said the mayor.
"Against barbarity, France would never be indifferent, not the end," he said. "France has an absolute duty to the nation., You need to go all with European partners, the people that democracy is not necessary."
Tuesday afternoon, the freedom fighters of the French flag is raised in the relay race, honor at the police headquarters in a row, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe in the past.
Completed step before show "Hoedown" Light Hall night of August 25 the results of this week's events Saturday Cascade Wood is honored fired Boulogne. August 16, 1944, these 35 young resistance fighters were betrayed and murdered by the German invaders, the day of liberation.
Sunday Mass will be celebrated at Notre-Dame, in memory of the "Magnificat" on General de Gaulle, August 26, 1944, after a triumphant tour of the Champs Elysees.
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