The mayor initially issued an order banning masses, but it was overturned on Friday by Nancy’s administrative court.
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The scandal continued in Verdun. The Prefect of the Meuse, Xavier Delarue, will file a complaint against the comments “clearly revisionist” separated from the tribute paid “to Marshal Pétain and his army” at a church in Verdun, Saturday 15 November, he told AFP. At the end of the religious service, a member of the Association for the Defense of the Memory of Marshal Pétain (ADMP) stated to journalists that the leader of the Vichy regime, who was sentenced to death in 1945, had “France’s first resistance fighter”.
Near the church, an AFP photographer counted around twenty police officers and gendarmes, while around a hundred demonstrators protested peacefully while singing the Marseillaise. Several elected officials were present with their tricolor scarves. “I was very shocked, because I thought of all the victims of Nazi barbarism and the national revolution, the ideology of Marshal Pétain”stated to the press Samuel Hazard, the left-wing mayor of Verdun.
Samuel Hazard initially issued an order banning the mass, but it was overturned on Friday by Nancy’s administrative court.
