“The Camp des Milles was not an accident in history but the fruit of a deliberate shift towards crime,” said the president on Monday, stressing that “the Jews were the deliberate victims of the French State “.
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Emmanuel Macron denounced on Monday, December 5, “one of the most complete perjury in the Republic” during a trip to the internment and deportation camp of the miles, in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du -Rhône), where 10,000 prisoners were retained between 1939 and 1942. The Head of State was expressed during the tenth anniversary of the inauguration of a memorial on this site, where the Vichy regime interned Thousands of Jews – 1,800 of them were deported to the extermination camp of Auschwitz -Birkenau.
Red brick buildings of this old tuilerie are today a place of memory which welcomes thousands of young people to make them discover the mechanisms that change a society towards totalitarianism and mass crimes.
“The Camp des Milles, it was the crimes of the French State”, hammered Emmanuel Macron, recalling that “France in the hands of Pétain and Laval is lost” by “missing the principles from 1789 “. “It was in the miles that [the Republic] knew, as in the vel ‘d’Hiv, one of its most complete perjury”, “reminding us that there were camps on our soil” and that “the Deportation was [also] organized “in the area that” the marshal Pétain regime then administered in his name, “said the head of state. Chouraqui
“The Camp des Milles was not an accident in history but the fruit of a deliberate shift towards crime”, also insisted Emmanuel Macron, stressing that “the Jews were the deliberate victims of the State French “. “Here is sediment each renunciation, each fault, each crime of the French authorities,” he added.
He praised the action of the memorial which “restores a political climate and dismantles the springs of the genocidal company: he says why the same causes produce the same effects in other places at other times”, in Stressing that “anti-Semitism, racism, any form of rejection carries in it the annihilation of all humanity”.
Emmanuel Macron notably underlined the “perseverance” of former deportees and resistant to prevent the disappearance of the site and its transformation into a foundation, today chaired by Alain Chouraqui, to whom he has submitted the badge of the Legion of the Legion of the Legion honor.