Lyon signaled the liberation of the Capital of the Resistance
On Saturday September 3, the elected representatives of Lyon gathered at the Hôtel de Ville to commemorate the liberation of the City which took place on September 3, 1944. They recalled that in Lyon, the Resistance to oppression is part of DNA, of the city.
The elected officials of the city of Lyon met at the town hall on Saturday September 3, to celebrate in the company of the Prefect of the region and Prefect of the Rhône Pascal Mailhos, the liberation of the city, which took place on September 3, 1944, 78 years ago.
On Twitter, the mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet declared that “Lyon was during the Second World War a capital of the resistance”. “This common history, which has forged the identity of our city, has made it possible to make Lyon a capital of memory”.
The environmental deputy for the 2nd district of the Rhône Hubert Julien-Lafferrière meanwhile recalled that “After 4 years of a terrible war, including 2 of occupation, on September 3, 1944, Lyon was freed from Nazi barbarism”. “Named by General de Gaulle a few days later ‘Capital of the Resistance’, it will nonetheless emerge wounded and bruised by these dark years”.
The Rhône deputy in Villeurbanne, Gabriel Amard, spoke of “a moving ceremony”. “The spirit of resistance of our ancestors lives in our gathering today and in our commitments to freedom and the defense of the achievements resulting from their sacrifice”.
The deputy of the 3rd district of the Rhône Marie-Charlotte Garin underlined that “Collectively, we are remembered today on the day of the Liberation of Lyon, September 3, 1944”. “Let us pay tribute to all these women and men who resisted. Let’s not forget them “.
Senator EELV du Rhône Raymonde Poncet Monge had “a special thought” for her “resistant father”. “Let’s stay mobilized: ‘the belly is still fertile from which the filthy beast emerged (Bertolt Brecht)’.
It is indeed necessary to remain mobilized in order to guarantee peace, in the troubled period that we are living through. On December 6, 1938, Joachim Von Ribbentrop came to Paris to sign the Franco-German declaration of peaceful collaboration. At the time, no one suspected that a few months later, France and Great Britain would declare war on Germany following its invasion of Poland. It was September 3, 1949, another September 3…
Corresponding journalist for the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region