2023-07-14 21:07:13
A crowd of tourists and Parisians gathered on the evening of Friday July 14 to admire the July 14 fireworks display from the Eiffel Tower. According to the town hall of Paris, like last year, some 70,000 people took their places in the secure area of the Champ-de-Mars to attend the classical concert, broadcast live on France 2, which preceded the pyrotechnic show, at from 11 p.m. A spectacle under reinforced surveillance: around 10,000 police and gendarmes are on the ground, in the capital and its neighboring departments. This live is now over.
The Indian Army represented in the parade. After receiving the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, Narendra Modi attended the military parade. The military parade on foot was opened by 240 members of Indian armed forces. And the air parade included three Indian Rafales, according to the Elysée. Paris and New Delhi are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their strategic partnership this year, which France aims to strengthen in order to weigh in the Asia-Pacific zone. “We will continue to strengthen this historic relationship of trust between our two countries”declared the French head of state during a joint speech, before an official dinner at the Louvre Museum.
Police and gendarmes deployed on the ground. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Wednesday the deployment of “130,000 police and gendarmes”, “specially equipped and organized to carry out the fight once morest urban violence”. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne had already promised “massive means” and prohibits the sale of artificial mortars to individuals.
No speech by Emmanuel Macron. While the President of the Republic had resumed in 2022 with the traditional interview of July 14, the Elysée announced that the Head of State would not speak on this occasion, specifying however that it is expected that he expresses himself “in the next few days”.
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