In Alsace, an RN MP files a complaint against a member of the French Remembrance Association

In the depths of the Alsatian summer, the commemoration of a battle of 1870 was the occasion for a war of words between the MP (National Rally, RN) for Bas-Rhin, Théo Bernhardt, and Benoît Sigrist, a local leader of the Souvenir Français. This association, founded in 1887, has the mission of "honoring the memory of those who died for France, French and foreign," and is active throughout the country. During official ceremonies, volunteers hold up gold-fringed French flags bearing the association's logo and the inscription "To us the memory, to them immortality."

On August 6, in Morsbronn-Les-Bains (Bas-Rhin), the commemoration of the Battle of Wœrth-Frœschwiller took place. In 1870, the French troops were defeated by an overwhelming Prussian army. Following the war in 1871 and the Treaty of Frankfurt, Alsace and part of Lorraine were annexed by the German Reich until the end of the First World War. In his speech on August 6, Benoît Sigrist, 56, a local delegate of the Souvenir Français, quoted testimonies from soldiers and recalled the ferocity of the conflicts and the human losses.

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