Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Mrs. Anna Hakobyan, along with French President Emmanuel Macron and Mrs. Brigitte Macron, attended the ceremony to enshrine the remains of Armenian hero of the Resistance Movement Missak Manouchian and his wife Meline Manuchian in Paris pantheon of French greatest figures, Armenian government reports.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, former French President Francois Hollande, members of Armenian and French governments, legislative bodies, public and political figures also participated in the event.
Emmanuel Macron made a speech during the ceremony. In his speech, the French president noted that Missak Manouchian was free when he walked on the street and passed by this pantheon.
"He imagined what his beloved Armenia would be like. Manouchian called himself "a tiger full of rage" when he was arrested, but Meline was with him in all the odysseys and supported him. The final, permanent choice was freedom. He chose the underground life so that the Frenchman would not lose anything from his freedom, always being a drunken soldier of freedom," Macron said, adding that today there is a France that is grateful to them.
"Missak and 23 others, and all others who were related to this freedom, eventually received honor, love and freedom for eternity," said the French president.
