The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron is expected in Lyon this Monday, May 8. He will not be alone: several members of the government will accompany him.
After chairing the morning ceremony in Paris to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Victory of May 8, 1945, the Head of State will go to the Memorial of the Montluc prison in Lyon 3rd, to preside over a ceremony in tribute to Jean Moulin, to the French Resistance and to the victims of Nazi barbarism.
The Montluc prison is emblematic by the number and influence of the figures who were detained there: heroes of the Resistance like Jean Moulin or Raymond Aubrac, committed intellectuals like Marc Bloch, hostages and innocent victims of Nazism like the children of Izieu.
The Keeper of the Seals by his side
The President of the Republic will be accompanied by the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti, the Minister of National Education and Youth Pap Ndiaye, and the Secretary of State for Veterans and Memory, Patricia Miralles.
Emmanuel Macron’s arrival in Lyon is announced at 2:40 p.m. A wreath laying, a visit to the cells of the old prison are announced, before a speech by the President scheduled for 3:40 p.m.
Emmanuel Macron’s last trip to Lyon dates back to September 2021. The Head of State presided over the installation ceremony of the World Health Organization Academy, in the presence of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of WHO.
A tense social context
The arrival of the President of the Republic, which is part of a tense social context, is not his first public outing on French territory since the promulgation of the law on pensions (April 14, 2023).
This Thursday, on the sidelines of his visit to a high school in Saintes (Charente-Maritime) to present the reform of vocational education, the prefecture of Charente-Maritime decided to ban any demonstration near the establishment. Several hundred opponents of the pension reform were gathered.
A similar decree had been taken at the end of April as part of his visit to the Vendôme health center, in the Loir-et-Cher. It provided for the prohibition of sound amplifiers, including the famous saucepans. But the administrative court of Orleans had suspended this decree. Emmanuel Macron had been welcomed by a concert of saucepans in Vendôme.
Ministerial trips were also disrupted by demonstrators, such as that of Pap Ndiaye, Minister of National Education, on April 24, in Lyon.
2023-05-05 07:41:36
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