On June 19, RA Minister of Defence Suren Papikyan, who is on a working visit to France, accompanied by the Ambassador of Armenia to France Hasmik Tolmajyan and defence attaché Gevorg Ghonyan, visited Mount Valerian memorial which commemorates the memory of the participants of the French Resistance, including resistance hero Misak Manushyan and 21 members of his group. On February 21, 1944, after three months of interrogation and torture, 37-year-old Manushyan and the members of his group were executed here in Fort Mont-Valeria.
In memory of Misak Manushyan, his wife Meline Manushyan and other Armenian heroes who lost their lives for the liberation of France, Defence Minister of Armenia laid flowers on the "Memorial to Fighting France” and then toured the compound of ​​the memorial complex.
Of note: on June 18, the Elysée Palace officially announced about the historic decision of the French President Emmanuel Macron to move the remains of the hero of the French resistance, Armenian Genocide survivor Misak Manushyan to the Pantheon of France in the near future.