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This Wednesday, February 21, the communist resistance fighter Missak Manouchian who fell under the bullets of Nazi soldiers will enter the Pantheon with his wife Mélinée.
Eighty years after her execution by the Nazis, Missak Manouchian will be transferred to the Pantheon on Wednesday.
This is the first time that a foreigner will be buried among French national heroes,
His wife Mélinée will rest at his side.
Armenian, member of the resistance, Missak Manouchian was executed at the Mont-Valérien fort, in the Paris suburbs, on February 21, 1944.
The entry into the Pantheon of Missak Manouchian marks recognition of the role played by foreigners in France in the fight against Nazism.
