The appeal of 200 French intellectuals in the newspaper "Le Figaro"
The oldest French newspaper "Le Figaro", founded in 1826, on December 23, 2022, published a statement-appeal of French intellectuals in solidarity with Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh. More than 200 representatives of science and art, including world-famous actors Jean Reno, Pierre Richard, Carol Bouquet, Virginie Ledoyen, Philippe Katerine, film directors Costa-Gavras and Claude Lelouch, Nicolas Berry, Atom Egoyan, famous writers Sylvain Tesson, Alexandre Jardin, Gilbert Sinoué, Marc Dugain, Bishop Pascal Gollnisch, outstanding philosophers Pascal Bruckner and Michel Onfray, Pr Alain Serrie, Honorary President of Pain Without Borders, television personalities Stephane Bern, Pascal Legitimus, Pascal Ory, Jean-Marie Rouart, Dominique Bona, Frédéric Vitoux and a number of other members of the French Academy, scientists, cultural figures, journalists mobilized to support the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, whom "Azerbaijan" threatens with ethnic cleansing.
After the war, after the phosphorus bombs, after the torture that broke so many lives in 2020, this is really the last perversion conceived by the Azerbaijani dictatorship: blocking the Lachin corridor the only road for the Armenians of Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh to the outside world. Consequence: separated families, a shortage that is getting worse day by day, a lack of medical care that has already cost lives and threatens several patients in intensive care including children ”the appeal says. “What future will we offer our children if we give dictatorship, barbarism a pretext to deal with one of the most ancient civilizations, with our fraternal people which has been connected with us for centuries, a people-bridge that has always promoted dialogue between cultures? What will our children think, what values will they build their lives on if we allow the unthinkable to happen again? Indifference allows today's aggressors to shamelessly claim the role of the executioners of 1915, their sinister legacy. They want the same methods to deal with those they hate. Because today's executioners are like these executioners."- the authors of the appeal address the public with pain in their hearts.
