Memento for the Identitarians…
On the 28th, as every year, the municipality organized (a great idea…) a memory circuit to commemorate the Liberation of Nice and to honor the memory of the 32 heroes who died for our city to free itself from the Germans.
However, if you look at the list of the 32 fighters, you find only 12 from Nice (Eugène Alentchenko, Jean-Marc Ballestra, Fortuné Barralis, Jean-Marc Bobichon, Raymond Carmine, Marius Fantino, Joseph Giuge, Jean Gordolon, Auguste Gouirand, Basile Rossi, Roger Simon, Verdun Vial) and 2 from the County (Paul Vallaghe from Menton and Antoine Genouillac from Contes).
On the other hand, a majority came from elsewhere. From all over France: Jean Henri Authement (Créteil), Antoine Codaccioni (Bilia, Corsica), Raymond Albin (Pignans, Var), Auguste Bogniot (Draguignan), Roger Boyer (the man from Square, Lower Alps), Lucien Chervin (Paris), Emile Krieger (Moselle), Antoine Suarez (Bordeaux), Jean Girone (Vaucluse).
And, much to the dismay of the staunch defenders of national identity, 10 were born abroad: 6 in Italy (Auguste Arnaudo, Jean Badino, Vincent Boscarolo, Sauveur Bernardo, Venance Cantergiani, Michel Ravera), 1 in Spain (Jean Morales), 1 in Belgium (Alphonse Cornil) and 1 in Turkey (Arisdakesse Arzoumanian).
Thus 20 of these 32 heroes sacrificed their lives for Nice. Yet, “they were not born in Nice”…
by Patrick Mottard
