US President Donald Trump on Saturday canceled a planned trip to the Bois Belleau US cemetery in northern France due to bad weather, the White House announced.
"The removal of the president and the First Lady to the American cemetery Aisne-Marne has been canceled for reasons of program and logistics related to time," said the White House.
Mr. Trump was to go to this cemetery located in the department of Aisne, a hundred kilometers north-east of Paris, aboard the presidential helicopter Marine One.
Mr. Trump, who is in Paris for the weekend to participate in commemorations of the centenary of the end of the First World War, has nothing else planned Saturday before dinner at the Musée d'Orsay. company of, among others, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
A necropolis, American concession since 1922, the statue of a Marine and a museum of the Memory were erected in Belleau, village of 140 inhabitants.
In May 1918, a German offensive marked the beginning of the 2nd Battle of the Marne. The French staff then asked the 2nd US Infantry Division (DIUS), nicknamed the Indianhead because of his badge on the shoulder representing an Indian head, to intervene.
In June, this division managed to stop the German advance at the cost of very heavy losses, with 7,876 dead, wounded and missing and close combat or machine gun.