Believing that the retired generals, authors of the column published in Current values against the “disintegration that strikes our homeland” have been unfairly mistreated by the government, Pascal Bugis, mayor various right of Castres, will not participate, for the first time in 20 years in office, at the official ceremony of May 8.
“On May 8, 2021, for the first time in 20 years, I will not participate in the official ceremony. And it is only that I will bow to the memory of all the victims, with deep gratitude for the French soldiers, reserve and active ”, indicates the various right mayor of Castres in a press release sent this Friday evening 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 tribune 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, courage and self-sacrifice of the French soldiers and their allies, who have leads to victory over Nazi barbarism, says Pascal Bugis. Thus, every year since 1946, in the municipalities of France, the 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, has not had enough harsh words to castigate and threaten retired generals who have 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 settling in our country and participating in its disintegration. “
“These men who have devoted their professional lives to serving France and the French, facing peril in all theaters of operations to which other governments have once sent them, would be doomed to complaining for having peacefully expressed their point of view and their attachment to the homeland? 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 “relentless fight of the French armies”, before urging “United and united, let us remember? of adversity overcome and freedom regained ”? However, it is precisely because the military know the price of freedom and the dangers of adversity that they have fought from generation to generation, sometimes even like General de Gaulle when leaving the frame, that they spoke out. . They deserve our respect, not insults. “
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