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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

French villagers say non merci to Hegseth during controversial D-Day visit

Residents were sharply critical of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s visit to France on Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of the D-Day landings during WWII.

“He has very warlike remarks, and it seems to us that he does not exactly share our values ​​of democracy and freedom,” Sylvie Lamy Thepaut, a member of the local Langrune en Commun association, told the outlet BFM TV in French, The Daily Beast reports.

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