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THE MONUMENT MANOUCHIAN GROUP DESECRATED BY THE SWASTIKA
PRESS THE SOCIALIST PARTY
On the night of June 24, 2014, in Marseille, the statue dedicated to
Missak Manouchian and his resistance group was profaned the sign of
the swastika.
The desecration of the monument shows once more that the zealots
of racism and xenophobia are still active and do not give up spread
by obvious signs, such as desecration, or by more insidious means,
an ideology that was causing great human disasters of modern times,
the Armenian Genocide to the Holocaust.
This desecration is an insult to the Republic and Marseille. Over
the centuries, this city and its region are built on emigration
and prosperity today is largely due to successive waves of Italians
fleeing fascism, Spaniards fleeing civil war, survivors Jews Holocaust
or repatriated from North Africa, the Armenian Genocide survivors,
and all those workers in Eastern Europe, persecuted in their country
and sought a future on the docks of Marseille, the fields of Aix or
mines Gardanne.
The Manouchian Group, composed of Armenians, Jews, Poles, Spaniards,
Italians, and others from Central Europe, all migrants and stateless
persons, is the image of the city. By his struggle for freedom by
the sacrifice of their lives for the values of the Republic, it also
symbolizes the values. Desecrate this monument is an insult to their
memory and combat, but also all those and all those who descend,
and through them France and the French.
The Socialist Party calls on all organizations defending human rights,
struggling day after day against racism, antisemitism and xenophobia
to join this call and testify and France will remain, despite all the
forces who claim to defend the French identity by hatred and stigma,
the land of liberty, equality and fraternity.
Friday, June 27, 2014, Ara © armenews.com
http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=101171
From: A. Papazian
PRESS THE SOCIALIST PARTY
On the night of June 24, 2014, in Marseille, the statue dedicated to
Missak Manouchian and his resistance group was profaned the sign of
the swastika.
The desecration of the monument shows once more that the zealots
of racism and xenophobia are still active and do not give up spread
by obvious signs, such as desecration, or by more insidious means,
an ideology that was causing great human disasters of modern times,
the Armenian Genocide to the Holocaust.
This desecration is an insult to the Republic and Marseille. Over
the centuries, this city and its region are built on emigration
and prosperity today is largely due to successive waves of Italians
fleeing fascism, Spaniards fleeing civil war, survivors Jews Holocaust
or repatriated from North Africa, the Armenian Genocide survivors,
and all those workers in Eastern Europe, persecuted in their country
and sought a future on the docks of Marseille, the fields of Aix or
mines Gardanne.
The Manouchian Group, composed of Armenians, Jews, Poles, Spaniards,
Italians, and others from Central Europe, all migrants and stateless
persons, is the image of the city. By his struggle for freedom by
the sacrifice of their lives for the values of the Republic, it also
symbolizes the values. Desecrate this monument is an insult to their
memory and combat, but also all those and all those who descend,
and through them France and the French.
The Socialist Party calls on all organizations defending human rights,
struggling day after day against racism, antisemitism and xenophobia
to join this call and testify and France will remain, despite all the
forces who claim to defend the French identity by hatred and stigma,
the land of liberty, equality and fraternity.
Friday, June 27, 2014, Ara © armenews.com
http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=101171
From: A. Papazian