By our correspondent in Cherbourg
It was supposed to be a beautiful story that paid homage to great history with a capital “H” from Normandy. It is now on its way to becoming a minor controversy with political ulterior motives. A two-month public consultation on a future underwater park called Tribute to the Heroes of the 1944 Landing, due to open in 2025 off Carentan-le-Maré (Manche), began this week. And the opponents of this memorial tourism project are already firing on all cylinders.
Referring to Puy-du-Foy (so), the PS Group of the Regional Council of Normandy condemns a project in a press release issued this summer. hollywood “, a” industrialization’ and ‘commodification’ the memory tourism that would result cannibalize The Norman Forty Museums as well as the Caen Memorial (Calvados) associated with the D-Day landings. Arguments that activists should convey…
Source: Le Figaro
