Interior Minister Honors Muslim WWI Soldiers at Douaumont Memorial

Speaking in front of the "tombs adorned with the crescent", the French Minister of the Interior and Religions warned against "any distortion of the spirit of the Republic", an "insidious distortion that covertly evokes the alleged incompatibility between the fact of believing and being republican". He also stressed that "the Muslim fighters have made the history of France, which owes them an eternal debt. That of the blood shed and the sacrifice consented to".

In the presence of the President of the French Council of the Muslim Faith, Mohammed Moussaoui, and the Minister Delegate for Memory and Veterans Affairs, Geneviève Darrieussecq, Gérald Darmanin declared that "these men are heroes and benchmarks for all French people, for the youth sometimes prey to a loss of meaning, for all French people who might believe that they do not have their place in the Republic".