A tribute to the caregivers will also be organised, announced the Elysée palace on Thursday.
This year, the traditional ceremony of July 14, will also adapt to sanitary measures. The famous parade on the Champs-Élysées will be replaced by a military ceremony place de la Concorde, which will also pay tribute to carers, announced the Elysée palace on Thursday.
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The ceremony will include "a device, tightened, reduced to 2000 participants and about 2,500 guests", in the respect of the rules of social distancing, said the presidency.
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"The ceremony, which will include an air parade, will honour the participation of our armed forces to the fight against the Covid-19, through the operation Resilience ; it will also pay tribute to the carers that the French were applauded every night during the confinement period as well as the set of actors mobilized against the virus", said the Elysée. It is not intended for the moment to open the event to the general public, but "the situation could be reassessed by July 14," if the health situation is better, is it added.
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On may 13, in the Council of ministers Emmanuel Macron had hoped "that the national holiday is another opportunity to express the homage and the gratitude of the nation to all those who are engaged in the fight against the Covid-19," according to the spokesperson of the government Sibeth Ndiaye.
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The national holiday of July 14, 2016
IN PICTURES. The training of the republican guard for the parade of 14-July VIDEO. American troops rehearse for the parade of 14-July Weekend of the 14th of July: the roads will be loaded this ThursdayAn application that had already made elected LREM and LR in April when they had called for the presence of a "square of carers", but also representatives of the "everyday heroes" during the military parade annual. Damien Adam, member of LREM of Seine-Maritime and Catherine Dumas, senator RL from Paris had sent a mail to Emmanuel Macron, asking him, "if the sanitary conditions allow it" to be associated "to the next national day carers and all our everyday heroes (traders, drivers, transport, garbage collectors, teachers).
Date Of Update: 04 June 2020, 07:58
