WE WILL WERE – singer Mistral winner called on his fans to come together spontaneously to evoke the memory of victims of Charlie , to 18h, Republic Square. A plea for freedom of speech was read by his friend, comedian, and this improvised demonstration ended with the Marianne Michel Delpech.
It is 17:30. Some are curious around the Republic Square, taking pictures here and there still lit candles at the foot of the eleventh arrondissement monument. While skaters are trying not far from the figures of the CGT group that formed on the occasion of the event for Charlie Hebdo which will take place in thirty minutes, a shapeless mass of people buried in their gray coats dawns.
Renaud’s appeal in memory of the attacks of 7 January 2015 (on his Facebook page) seems to have worked. They are already hundreds on the square. The spirit Charlie is paradoxically defended, some think, by discrete and effective law enforcement.
Some gather around a young guitarist who sings a melody to the glory of free pensance, how historic canal Charlie Hebdo . Others observe the drawings left in silent tribute to the victims of the attacks of November. No one really knows what will happen. The looks are exchanged, some voices too. Suddenly, it’s a riot. It is 18pm.
Renaud Christophe Alévèque and just made their entrance into the arena, surrounded by a barrier of journalists. No one can reach except telescopic bars televisions and some foolhardy who have to squeeze through the black jackets. “Caution”, “shhh” means do we repeat every second. While the comedian tests his megaphone throwing a joke about Johnny Hallyday “He is Sunday, Renaud is Thursday. One of them is Charlie the other … but I’ll let you guess which “the crowd finally silent.
“On January 7, a year ago, we were there. Collapsed, unable to put into words what happened. There is one year, the whole of France was Charlie “launches Christophe Alévèque, before continuing in some applause:” We are here tonight to celebrate life, for freedom, equality and fraternity. Not to give in to terror, to say that we are still standing (…) Freedom should never be held hostage by terrorism, obscurantism, extremism, finally, all that ends in – ism … except eroticism, of course. “And while the actor ends his speech for freedom of expression on a” let go is nothing, “it passes the megaphone to Renaud.
The voice breaking with emotion, tired, tired perhaps, the singer speaks without that no words are clearly understood by the public. He who proclaimed this morning “fart shape” and “do not drink” yet seems absent good. “You do not hear anything,” mutters the crowd. Whatever, the singer is there with a clear message in mind: you have to fight. At the foot of the statue, Renaud and Alévêque sing That was pretty Marianne , in chorus with hundreds of people who came to pay homage to Charlie . The emotion is there. Some cheers finish the song that will open three times on Ciao Bella , with the strong voice of Alévêque and playback of Dr. Fox.
Tonight, Republic Square, anonymous, discrete stars like Macha Meryl, the boss of the Communist Party Pierre Laurent, had one thing in common: the memory of the dead cartoonists there a year ago.
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