Macron gave a European dimension to the anniversary of the French Revolution | Chronic

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, chose to commemorate this Sunday the 230th anniversary of the French Revolution with a celebration of European military cooperation including the deployment of forces from other countries of the continent and the presence of leaders such as the German Chancellor, Angela Merkeland the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg.

"Never before since the end of the Second World War, Europe was so necessary, the construction of a defensive Europe, in cooperation with the Atlantic Alliance (NATO), which is 70 years old, is a priority for France and is the guiding principle of this parade ", Macron badured in his speech, according to the local newspaper Le Monde.

The majestic military parade included German, British, Belgian, Danish, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, Dutch and Portuguese forces as well as French troops.

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In total, some 4,300 soldiers, 196 vehicles, 237 horses, 69 aircraft and 39 helicopters marched on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris to commemorate the takeover of the Bastille in 1789, a landmark date with which commemorates the triumph of the Revolution. French and the end of the monarchy in the country.

From the main platform, host Macron was accompanied by some of his ministers and European personalities such as Merkel, Stoltenberg, number two of the British government, David Lidington, the Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Roblesand the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.

The ceremony began when Macron pbaded a magazine of troops in a military vehicle, accompanied by uniformed officers, who borrowed the traditional avenue of the Parisian center.

Macron was sometimes whistled and whistled by some people who were following the parade on one side of the Champs-Élysées Avenue.

A few blocks away, a group of people, some wearing yellow vests, a distinctive symbol of the protest movement that paralyzed France for months, demonstrated against the Macron government and its economic policy.

The demonstrators, summoned by the movement of yellow vests, settled on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees once the parade ended and managed to stay there for a while until the security forces repressed them. using tear gas.

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"Those who have tried to prevent this parade should have a little shame, today is a day when the nation unites and I believe that the nation must be respected", maintained the French Minister of the Interior, Christophe CastanerShortly before the police, the police learned that 175 people had been arrested during an unauthorized protest.

According to CNews, two of the detainees are Jérôme Rodrigues and Eric Drouet, referents of the movement yellow vests.

In the image of this morning of military discipline, advanced technologies and the spirit of European cooperation eventually replaced the end of the afternoon, with the traditional Parisian avenue dotted small bonfires, fences everywhere, police officers and protesters in yellow vests flowing between them amidst dense clouds of tear gas.