The prefect of Meuse recordsdata a criticism for “revisionist remarks” after a mass in tribute to Pétain | EUROtoday

The prefect of Meuse will file a criticism for revisionist remarks made on the sidelines of a tribute paid on Saturday “to Marshal Pétain and his soldiers” in a church in Verdun, which attracted a handful of devoted within the face of 100 demonstrators.

A number of days after the commemoration of the 1918 armistice, the tribute to the winner of Verdun generated controversy, the mayor of the martyred metropolis having tried to ban the occasion, which was lastly licensed on Friday by the executive justice system.

“A very small number” of individuals, “around twenty at most”attended this service within the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church, declared the prefect. “Things are organized so that the church is closed and reserved for members of the association”he defined.

The prefect specified that he spoke earlier than the ceremony with the priest celebrating the mass with the intention to be certain that the principles arising from the 1905 legislation on the separation of Church and State had been revered, particularly that no talking or distribution of leaflets of a political nature occurred.

Despite this, on the finish of the non secular service, the president of the Association to defend the reminiscence of Marshal Pétain, Jacques Boncompain, maintained in entrance of journalists that the top of the Vichy regime, sentenced to demise in 1945, had been “the first resistance fighter in France”.

Under boos, a far-right activist, Pierre-Nicolas Nups, former candidate for the 2024 legislative elections in Meurthe-et-Moselle underneath the banner of the Party of France, interpreted Marshal, right here we comethe music in reward of the top of the Vichy regime.

The prefect stated he was additionally contemplating a criticism towards “two individuals” linked to the Party of France “who have not stopped harassing the police”.