The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has today in Paris the realization this year of a great exhibition on the Spanish Republicans who integrated ‘La Diez’, a company that liberated France from the Nazi occupation, during the Second World War, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of that gesture.
To this end, the procedure for the French Government to temporarily relinquish one of the semi-crawler armoured vehicles used by the Spanish combatants and which participated in the defense of the city of the Seine, in August 1944, has begun.
During the morning, the head of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory met with Patricia Mirallés, Secretary of State for Ex-combatants and Memory, where they updated on the collaboration between the two governments to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris.
In addition, the minister made a floral offering together with the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, in the Garden of ‘The Nine’. The Company of the 2nd Armored Division of Free France was commanded by General Leclerc.
In addition to the exhibition, the minister said that ‘Place of Memory’ will be declared the Garden of ‘The Nine’ where today the floral offering has been made, in the Parisian city hall.