French minister to take legal action against man who lit cigarette from memorial | France

A French minister said he had made legal proceedings against an unidentified man who illuminates cigarettes from a monument flame at a large Paris war monument.

A man who is watched by tourists in a calm way, causes anger when it is widely shared on social media, and standing to burn a cigarette from the fire in the grave of the unknown soldier under Arc de Triomphe.

Veterans and Commemoration Minister Patricia Miralles, “This man to find and give an example to him to give sanctions to be done in the Paris state prosecutors,” he wrote, “he wrote.

“You can not make fun of the French remembering and get rid of it.”

The grave under the belt at the top of the Champs-élysées Boulevard includes the ruins of a soldier killed in the First World War, where he was thrown as a praise of France’s war.

Miralles, “This flame does not burn a cigarette, millions of soldiers are burning for the sacrifice,” he said.

“This is an insult to our dead, our history and our nation.”

AFP could not determine the origin of the video.

Le Figaro newspaper, on the evening of August 4, a Latvian tourist was shot and first published in Tiktok reported.