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Anger after Azerbaijan’s offensive in Artsakh is mixed with a feeling of helplessness among the 80,000 members of the local diaspora.
From our correspondent in Marseille, François Tonneau The Armenian community in Marseille has some 80,000 members, most of whom maintain direct links with their country of origin. © PHILIPPE ROY / Philippe Roy / Aurimages via AFP Published on 09/21/2023 at 10:19 a.m.
On the gates which precede the square of the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral, in the Prado, a large banner shouts in red “SOS Artsakh”. While a religious service is being celebrated this morning of Wednesday, September 20, schoolchildren, schoolbags on their backs, go around the building. They are joining the Sahak-Mesrop cultural center on this back-to-school day to take Armenian lessons.
Some have been in Marseille for barely a few weeks and are unable to speak as soon as the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh is mentioned, where the “separatists” laid down their arms after the bombings and the Azerbaijani offensive. “I’m sad, but I can’t express it,” says a young mother in foggy English, her gaze a little blank. Aliksan has his eyes glued to his phone, scrutinizing a…
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2023-09-21 10:21:59
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