November 11 in a small group due to confinement

In Dijon and Nevers as everywhere in France, the confinement modified the ceremonies of November 11. The gatherings in front of the war memorial took place in small groups.

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It is obviously in a very small committee that the civil and military authorities commemorated the 102^e anniversary of the armistice of the First World War in Dijon. They saluted the memory of the 1.4 million French soldiers who fell on the field of honor as well as those of the 300,000 civilian victims.

Were present the mayor of Dijon François Rebsamen, the deputies Didier Martin, Rémi Delatte and Fadila Khattabi and the prefect of Côte-d’Or Fabien Sudry. The regional council was represented by its vice-president Océane Charret-Godard, the departmental council by its vice-president François-Xavier Dugourd.

This ceremony was special, tightened up due to the pandemic. There were only a few onlookers taking advantage of their daily outing hour to come and pay tribute to the victims.

In Dijon this Wednesday, November 11.
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© Christophe Gaillard / France 3 Burgundy

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In Dijon, no veteran was able to make the trip. “For them it was really, really hard. But I thank them for being very reasonable, says Brigitte Tardivon, director of the National Office for Veterans and War Victims in Côte-d’Or. I think you have to think about their health above all. They are very old and must be preserved above all from this virus “.

A November 11 to remember this deadly conflict. A November 11 also to salute the memory of the soldiers who fell for France this year, in the Sahel in particular. There are 19 of them. Their names have been listed one by one.

Reduced format in Nevers too

In Nevers, in the Nièvre, the ceremony also had a reduced format. It was done in the presence in particular of the prefect of Nièvre Sylvie Houspic, the mayor of Nevers Denis Thuriot and the deputy of Nièvre Perrine Goulet.