(14 Jul 2023)
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Paris - 14 July 2023
1. Wide of parade with military vehicles
HEADLINE: FRANCE CELEBRATES BASTILLE DAY WITH TRIBUTE TO INDIA
2. Wide of aerial display, parade
ANNOTATION: France celebrated Bastille Day with whizzing warplanes and a grand military parade in Paris.
3. French President Emmanuel Macron walking towards Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
ANNOTATION: India was the guest of honor at this year’s parade, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in attendance.
4. Macron and Modi walking
5. Wide of parade
ANNOTATION: Indian troops marched down the Champs-Elysees as Modi sat with French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron.
6. Macron and Modi watching parade
7. Various of parade
ANNOTATION: About 240 Indian troops led the march before thousands of French forces joined the aerial display.
8. Aerial display
STORYLINE:
France celebrated its national holiday Friday with whizzing warplanes and a grand Bastille Day parade in Paris — and with more than 100,000 police deployed around the country to prevent a new outbreak of unrest in underprivileged neighborhoods.
This year, the celebrations marking the start of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789 come in the wake of the nation’s most serious rioting in nearly 20 years, following the fatal police shooting of a teenager with North African roots that laid bare anger over entrenched inequality and racial discrimination.
Fighter jets and military helicopters whooshed Friday right above the site where 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk was killed last month, in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, on their way toward the Arc de Triomphe and the VIP guests watching the parade.
India was the guest of honor at this year’s Bastille Day parade, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi watching alongside French President Emmanuel Macron.
About 240 Indian troops led the march down the Champs-Elysees before thousands of French forces, and French-made Indian warplanes joined the aerial display.
France often showcases international partners on Bastille Day, and the choice of India comes as France looks to further strengthen cooperation on fighting climate change, military sales and countering China's growing influence in the strategic Indo-Pacific region.
The Bastille Day parade included 6,500 people marching, 94 planes and helicopters, 219 ground vehicles, 200 horses and 86 dogs.
Festivities are held in towns and cities around France to commemorate the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 that marked the start of the French Revolution, and to celebrate France’s ideals of ’’liberty, equality and fraternity.”
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