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Dozens of world leaders with the power to unleash a war, but with a duty to preserve peace, gathered Sunday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the mbadacre of the end of the First World War in Paris under the message "Never again" "
More than 60 heads of state and government attended a solemn ceremony in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a silent and powerful symbol of the sacrifice of millions of people who died between 1914 and 1918. [19659002] Paris_gris and humide_ seemed to remember a war between mud and endless horror.
The ceremonies began late, exceeding the exact moment when, a hundred years earlier, at 11 am, the flesh of hen the silence of peace replaced the thunder of arms in the west of France.
While the bell rang at the time of the armistice throughout Paris and many countries affected by the qu years French President Emmanuel Macron and other leaders were still going to the place of the centenary ceremony, in the Arc de Triomphe, where they were murdered.
Under a sea of black umbrellas, a series of leaders led by Macron and his wife Brigitte walked in a stone silence on the cobblestones of the Champs-Élysées, after they got off their buses .
The United States, Donald Trump, arrived separately in a caravan that pbaded two protesters with anti-war slogans written on their chest and somehow bypbaded the measures. of security. The protesters were quickly separated by the police. The Femen group claims responsibility.
The last to arrive is Russian President Vladimir Putin. German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a prominent place between Trump and Macron, a powerful symbol of winners and losers who are now united, shoulder to shoulder. Above their heads, several French warplanes crossed the sky, leaving trails of red, white and blue smoke, the colors of the French flag.
In four years of fierce trench fighting and the use of gas, France, the British Empire, Russia and the United States opposed a German-led coalition, which also included the Austro-Hungarian empires -hungarian and ottoman. Nearly ten million soldiers died. France lost 1.4 million and Germany 2 million.
However, although it was a war that was supposed to end all wars, the Second World War again confronted both parties.
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