“In this May 8, 2021, for the first time in 20 years, I will not participate in the official ceremony. And it is alone that I will bow in the memory of all the victims, with deep gratitude for the French soldiers , reserve and active “, indicates the various mayor right of Castres in a press release sent last night to the press. Pascal Bugis justifies this boycott by the way in which the government would have treated the twenty retired generals, close to the extreme right, authors of the famous platform against the “disintegration which strikes our homeland”, published on April 22 in Current values , even going so far as to suggest that an army intervention might be necessary against “the suburban horde”. “To commemorate the date of May 8, 1945, to bow to the memory of the victims of the Second World War, is to pay homage to the commitment, the courage, the self-sacrifice of the French soldiers and their allies, who have led to victory over Nazi barbarism, affirms Pascal Bugis. Thus, every year since 1946, in the municipalities of France, civil, administrative, political and military authorities meet in front of the war memorial, in moments where meditation and reflection seem to stop time. ” And the mayor to wonder about “the deep meaning, beyond tradition, should we give to this approach, in France, in 2021? At a time when the State, through the voice of ministers, does not did not have enough harsh words to castigate and threaten retired generals who alerted their fellow citizens in a simple press article, on what they consider to be a new danger in the face of a new barbarism which is gradually taking hold in our country and participates in its disintegration. “
“These men who have devoted their professional lives to serving France and the French, facing peril in all the theaters of operations where other governments have once sent them, would be doomed to complaining for having peacefully expressed their point of view and Their attachment to the motherland? That repels me, still angry Pascal Bugis. What is this barely believable level of hypocrisy which consists in sending the representatives of this government to read the message of the Secretary of State evoking the “fierce fight of the French armies “, before urging” United and united, let us remember the adversity overcome and freedom regained “? Yet it is precisely because the military know the price of freedom and the dangers of adversity that they fought from generation to generation, sometimes even like General de Gaulle leaving the frame, that they expressed themselves. They deserve our respect, and not insults. “
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