Foot and motorized troops, military and civilian formations, adults and young people marched this Wednesday, July 13 in front of a large audience on the Cours Général-de-Gaulle. Find all the sequences in nearly 130 photographs.
The traditional parade celebrating July 14 emphasized cooperation between the army, internal security forces, the fire and rescue service and civil security associations.
The various groups strode along the Cour Général-de-Gaulle to the applause of a large crowd, benefiting from hot but dry weather this year.
Many civil and military authorities were present: Senator François Patriat, deputies Benoît Bordat, Fadila Khattabi, Didier Martin, Didier Paris as well as Michel Neugnot, vice-president of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region, François-Xavier Dugourd, vice – President of the Department of Côte-d’Or, François Rebsamen, Mayor of Dijon, Prefect Fabien Sudry, Pascal Vion, Interregional Director of Penitentiary Services, Jean-Claude Dunand, Departmental Director of Public Security, Pauline Rossignol, Director of the Dijon prison, General Édouard Hubscher, commander of the gendarmerie region, Lieutenant-Colonel Étienne Royal, departmental military delegate, Colonel Joël Armand, head of the training division of the Dijon gendarmerie school, and the comptroller general Régis Deza, director of SDIS 21.
Three medal presentations
The ceremony was punctuated by the notes of the municipal harmony of Dijon directed by Cyril Diotte while Major Sylvie Dupuy specified the different sequences at the microphone.
General Édouard Hubscher awarded the Legion of Honor to Lieutenant-Colonel Pascal Normand, the Military Medal to Warrant Officer Frédéric Brigand and the National Order of Merit to Colonel Olivier Belcourt.
Parade of foot and motorized troops
Among the troops on foot, there has been a succession of: the Gendarmerie region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, the 511th regiment of the Train d’Auxonne, the naval military preparation of Dijon, the attached air element of Dijon, the initial military training of the reservist from Dijon and Luxeuil, the Air Youth Squadron (EAJ) from Dijon, the prison services, young people from the Universal national service, the French Red Cross and Civil Protection.
Then paraded the vehicles of the motorized troops: the departmental road safety squadron of the gendarmerie, the 511th regiment of the Train d’Auxonne, the penitentiary services, the police officers of the public security, the firefighters of the SDIS 21, the French Red Cross, Civil Protection and the French Rescue and First Aid Federation.
Several participants among the officials then went to the palace of the Dukes of Burgundy for a reception organized by the City of Dijon, while many spectators headed to the Transvaal barracks for another traditional moment of the National Day: the ball of firefighters.
Jean-Christophe Tardivon
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