The religious celebration was held in the Notre-Dame de la Visitation chapel, with the surrounding area decorated with thousands of pastel-colored roses offered by Italian florists. It is with the same desire to show that “man is not destined to be eternally a victim” but to “remain upright” that Mgr Marceau, bishop of Nice, celebrated a mass in the town of Tende, in homage to Paul Giordano, a shepherd from this commune of Roya carried away while he was trying to save his animals.

“As a symbol, a standing man stands here”, underlined the president of the metropolis of Nice, Christian Estrosi.īecause the scars of the storm Alex are still visible after this natural disaster, which caused “the most damage in mainland France since World War II”, according to experts. Saturday morning, a work by the artist Wilfrid Bricourt was unveiled at the confluence of the Tinée and the Vésubie: a man carrying earth from which a tree is reborn. of the world.įrom Tende to Saint-Martin-Vésubie, Breil-sur-Roya, Roquebillière or Venanson, several commemorative stelae were inaugurated in the presence of local authorities. On October 2, 2020, a flood hit the hinterland of Nice and Menton, causing devastating floods in the remote valleys of Vésubie, Roya and Tinée, where some 13,000 inhabitants were suddenly cut off. Remain “upright”, despite the wounds: a year after the floods which ravaged three valleys in the Alpes-Maritimes, leaving 10 dead and eight missing, the time has come to remember, with many tributes which began on Saturday, October 2, and will last until Monday.

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