French President Emmanuel Macron led a ceremony Wednesday honouring Missak Manouchian, a stateless poet of Armenian origin who died fighting the Nazi occupation during World War II. Manouchian’s induction in the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris alongside other French national heroes is seen as a tribute to all the foreign fighters who joined the Resistance.
At a solemn ceremony in the majestic Panthéon building on Wednesday, President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the memory of Missak Manouchian and his wife, Mélinée, also a Resistance fighter, were interred in the mausoleum housing France’s national heroes.
