Thibault Nadal with AFP 10:01 a.m., July 14, 2022

6,300 people meet on the Champs-Élysées for the traditional July 14 parade.

This 2022 edition will highlight France's solidarity with European countries bordering Russia and elsewhere, in the context of the war in Ukraine. 

This Thursday marks the day of the traditional July 14 parade on the Champs-Élysées.

For the occasion, 6,300 people will march along the two kilometers of the avenue from 10 a.m. to noon.

In detail: 4,925 troops on foot, 120 vehicles including four jaguars, and the new army armored vehicle.

In the sky: 25 helicopters, 64 planes and a drone.

  • 6,3000 people will march on the Champs-Élysées

  • Emmanuel Macron voted with the patrol of France

  • For the first time, a drone will parade

  • This July 14 will be under the sign of the armies of the countries of the East

A parade placed under the sign of the countries of the East

This parade will highlight France's strategic solidarity with the allies, in particular the European countries bordering Russia and elsewhere, in the context of the war in Ukraine.

For the first time, the flags of the European Union and NATO will be affixed to the badges of the parade.

In addition, the emblems of the nine Member States on the eastern flank will parade at the front.

They are made up of the Baltic countries (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia), Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania.

They will be followed by a hundred soldiers from the reassurance missions, including the Alpine hunters from Annecy, who have just returned from Romania where they were deployed immediately after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

However, no head of state from the Eastern countries will be present and no tribute to Ukrainian soldiers is planned.

Europe 1 had access to the griffon, the brand new armored vehicle of the French army

On the occasion of the traditional July 14 parade, the French army unveils its brand new jewel of technology: the Griffon.

A brand new armored vehicle that will parade on the Champs-Elysées this Thursday morning.

Europe 1 takes you behind the scenes of this armored behemoth, the first connected device.

Why will you see a drone parade for the first time?

This is a first that will take place this Thursday morning on the Champs-Élysées for the July 14 parade.

Long reluctant to the idea, for fear of overshadowing its own fighter pilots, the French army will parade a Reaper drone, which will be inserted between the Mirages and the Rafales.

Emmanuel Macron flew with the Patrouille de France

I can testify to this: our soldiers are ready for tomorrow and we will be there to tell them how proud we are.

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— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) July 13, 2022

The President of the Republic implied, on the eve of the parade of July 14, to have flown over Paris last Friday with the Patrouille de France.