Toulouse: ceremony of tribute to the victims of the attacks in Toulouse and Montauban
Many elected officials and representatives of the State paid tribute this Saturday at noon in the Square de Gaulle in Toulouse to the victims of the attacks of March 11, 15 and 19, 2012.
“A solemn ceremony, very sober, very simple”. It is with these words that Jean-Luc Moudenc, mayor of Toulouse, qualified the ceremony of this Saturday noon in Toulouse, square de Gaulle. Many elected officials as well as the prefect of Haute-Garonne, Etienne Guyot, representatives of veterans, members of associations but also gendarmes and police officers formed a large crowd in the heart of downtown Toulouse in front of the Concorde tree and Brotherhood, planted in March 2013 by François Hollande, then President of the Republic, one year after the attacks in Toulouse.
And now, every year, a ceremony is organized on March 19 to commemorate the seven victims of the attacks that took place on March 11, 15 and 19. In a silence imposing the inhabitants, the wreath laying followed one another under the gaze of many who also came to salute the memory of the victims. “We owe it to those who have disappeared, so as not to forget”, notes a woman, very moved. “I remember this month of March 2012, the absolute horror, I come to be enough”, slips a Toulousaine, the eyes reflect the emotion felt.
“So as not to forget those who have been torn from life, especially in such atrocious circumstances”, insists Pierre Lasry, president of the parents of students at the Ohr-Torah school in 2012. He insists on the importance “of work for peace”. “It is not only a question of commemorating and rethinking the tragedy, but it is also important to debate, to think about solutions to maintain democracy”, adds the mayor of Toulouse. At the end of a minute of silence, a Marseillaise, intoned by the crowd, retained at the end of this ceremony before the day of Sunday dedicated to the commemoration of the attacks of Toulouse and Montauban in the presence of Emmanuel Macron.