In Bormes-les-Mimosas, Emmanuel Macron calls on young people to unite against “chaos”

COMMEMORATION As every year, the Head of State spoke on the occasion of the commemorations of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the city

Emmanuel Macron in Bormes-les-Mimosas on August 17, 2023. — AFP

Emmanuel Macron warned French youth against “chaos” and the “disunion”, a few weeks after the urban riots, Thursday during his first speech of the start of the school year, at on the occasion of the commemorations of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Bormes-les-Mimosas.

Like every year, the Head of State spoke to the occasion of this ceremony in this city; du Var where is the Fort de Brégançon, the summer residence of the Presidents of the Republic. In a short speech (13 minutes), Macron paid tribute to the young people who participated in the landing in Provence, “ready to die for freedom group”, before discussing the French youth of 2023.

“There is in our young people an appetite for freedom, an idealism that sometimes seeks itself. And to which we must respond. Otherwise, sometimes this noble aspiration turns against itself and undermines the foundations of this nation of freedom and equality. and fraternity initiated in 1789” the President of the Republic. “Out of this common ground, division thrives, disunity, which paves the way for chaos and injustice,” Macron warned.

“ A Frenzy of Transgression”

The Young Liberators of 1944 “showed us (that) exercising your freedom””””is not a frenzy of transgression,” çit’s not a fever to overthrow taboos. It’s first and foremost a desire to controlled and strong, able to take on whatever constraints she chooses herself,” the head of state.

“And this freedom, which only exists because it is always and first collective, the rights that follow that are only there; that because there was homework first, that’s what we need to nurture our younger generations,” he added. The death of Nahel, slain by a police officer during a roadside check on June 27 in Nanterre, was followed by several nights of urban riots in many cities in France. The Head of State then underlined the need to restore authority; in the country, at all levels.

The president did not do any another allusion to the political situation during this ceremonial ceremony which has become an obligatory passage; presidential summers, preceding the resumption of the Council of Ministers by a few days.