Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: LAURENT CIPRIANI / POOL / AFP 16:26 pm, May 08, 2023
Traveling to Lyon to pay tribute to the Resistance on Monday, May 8, Emmanuel Macron is currently visiting the prison of Montluc where Jean Moulin was incarcerated. He went to the former cell of the French resistance but also to that of Klaus Barbie, nicknamed "the butcher of Lyon".President Emmanuel Macron is currently in Lyon to pay tribute to the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation during the Second World War. The Head of State visited the prison of Montluc, where Jean Moulin was incarcerated. He went to the 4m² cell that housed the former resistance fighter but also to that of Klaus Barbie, former SS officer, nicknamed "The butcher of Lyon" and imprisoned in this establishment after his arrest in 1983.
The ground floor of the prison
Credit: Europe 1/Jean-Luc Boujon
Accompanied by the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, the Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye and the Secretary of State for Veterans and Memory Patricia Miralles, Emmanuel Macron also exchanged a few words with Claude Bloch, 94 years old and survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Jean Moulin's
cell Credit: Europe 1/Jean-Luc Boujon
Earlier, he listened to the story of two high school students in the Lyon area about the arrest of 44 Jewish children from the Izieu colony on April 6, 1945 on the orders of Klaus Barbie. Back outside the memorial, the head of state spent a few moments at the "barracks for the Jews" while talking with Serge Klarsfeld, also deported to Auschwitz in 1943, and his wife Beate. Before, therefore, visiting the cells of the prison, guided by Aurélie Dessert, director of the national memorial.
The prison
cells Credit: Europe 1/Jean-Luc Boujon