Tribute to the victims of Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Hide, three years after

AFP

AFP

Sunday, January 7, 2018 05:32

UPDATE
Sunday, January 7, 2018 05:32

Look at this article

The French president Emmanuel Macron has made Sunday a tribute very sober, in accordance with the wishes of the families, to the victims of the jihadist attacks in Paris against the satirical weekly French Charlie Hebdo and the magazine Hyper to Hide, three years after the fact.

• READ ALSO: All that has changed in Charlie Hebdo, 3 years after the attacks

“The worst of it, three years ago, France showed that she was strong, because united. Let us never forget that we are a Nation that stands together, ” tweeted the head of State in the afternoon.

The tribute began in the late morning in front of the former premises of the satirical newspaper in Paris, where the brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi had gunned down eleven persons, on January 7, 2015.

Among the victims – the first of the 241 killed in jihadist attacks in France in three years – of the iconic figures of Charlie, as his director and cartoonist Charb, cartoonists Cabu, Wolinksi, Tignous and economist Bernard Maris.

After the reading of the names of the dead, several wreaths were laid before these local elders and a minute’s silence was observed by the participants of the ceremony, the face closed and serious.

After the national anthem, the Marseillaise, Emmanuel Macron has exchanged extensively with the families of the victims.

The French president was accompanied by several ministers, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, as well as the ex-prime minister Manuel Valls.

Several members of the team of Charlie Hebdo were also present.

The same ceremony was repeated a few metres further on, where fell the police officer Ahmed Merabet, killed by the brothers Kouachi when he tried to stop the jihadists in their flight.

Mr. Macron then went to the supermarket kosher in the outskirts of Paris, is to target the January 9, 2015 an attack perpetrated by another jihadist, Amédy Coulibaly, who had killed three customers and an employee of the jews.

The head of the French State spent a few minutes in the store. The main leaders of the jewish community in France were present.

Sunday afternoon, a few dozen people gathered in Paris at the call of the Movement for peace and against terrorism. “The spirit of Charlie seems to crumble, but we can not forget,” said the general delegate, Alexandre Sebban.

On Monday, the Interior minister Gérard Collomb, will represent Mr. Macron – visiting China – a tribute to Clarissa Jean-Philippe in Montrouge, south of Paris. This young police officer, called to a mundane road traffic accident, had been murdered in the street by Amédy Coulibaly on 8 January 2015.

On January 11, 2015, more than four million people were in the streets of the large cities of France, next to many of them the slogan ” I am Charlie “, in defence of freedom of expression.

In a message posted Sunday on Facebook, the ex-president, François Hollande, has estimated that France could ” be proud to have responded with dignity by scrolling massively on the 11th of January with the leaders of the world, in the name of Human rights and freedom “.

For his part, the leader of the French right Laurent Wauquiez has tweeted : “let us not forget that when freedom of expression is in question, the France must not back down or disarm in the face of obscurantism “.