One of three remaining fighters in the French resistance to the Nazi occupation of World War II has died, President Emmanuel Macron’s office says, hailing a “hero” who was just 17 when he joined the fight to free France.
Pierre Simonet, who died yesterday aged 99, was one of just over a thousand resistance fighters decorated by Charles de Gaulle, who rallied the defeated French forces from London after Germany’s 1940 invasion of the country.
His death comes just a few months after that of another wartime hero, Edgard Tupet-Thome, leaving just two men as living links to one of the most wrenching chapters in France’s history.
“The president honors the life of this man driven by the love of liberty who, transcending risks and borders, was always guided by his immense love of France,” the Elysee says in a statement.
— AFP
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