A French minister is pursuing legal action against a man filmed lighting a cigarette from the memorial flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The incident, which occurred under the Arc de Triomphe and was widely circulated on social media, sparked public outrage. Minister Patricia Miralles stated her intent to file a complaint with Paris prosecutors. She emphasized that the flame commemorates the sacrifices of soldiers and denounced the act as an affront to national remembrance and history.
I am filing a case immediately with the Paris state prosecutors so that this man will be found and sanctions imposed to make an example of him, Patricia Miralles, minister for veterans and remembrance, wrote on X.
This flame does not light a cigarette, it burns for the sacrifice of millions of our soldiers. This is an insult to our dead, to our history and to our nation.
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