The traditional Grand Case celebration which took place from Friday to Sunday also commemorates the birth of Victor Schoelcher (July 22, 1804), a politician who worked for the abolition of slavery. After having attended a religious ceremony which took place in the Catholic church Ste Marie Star of the Sea of Grand Case, Friday July 21, elected officials and officials went up the boulevard Bertin Meurice to join the sports field.
"Today we are celebrating part of our history and that of the people of Saint-Martin," said Jean-Raymond Benjamin, territorial advisor and president of the Grand Case cultural center.
Patricia Chance-Duzant, the representative of Quartier n ° 2 (Grand Case), notably deplored the absence of the inhabitants of Grand Case at the ceremony. She also mentioned two of her fights: the restoration of the pontoon as well as that of the bridge.
Community president Daniel Gibbs bounced back from the absence of the population at the ceremony, declaring that he had no doubt that they would participate in the festivities throughout the weekend. He then preferred to stick to a symbolic speech. “If there is indeed an appointment fixed at our Collectivity that I particularly like, it is the celebration of Grand Case. Not because I learned to swim there but because I love this village, ”he said.
Finally, the prefect Anne Laubiès, concluded the ceremony by quoting an extract from the speech of Aimé Césaire delivered on July 21, 1945 on the occasion of a tribute to Victor Schoelcher: "April 27, 1848, a people who for centuries trampled on the shadows, a people that for centuries the whip had kept in the pits of history, a people tortured for centuries, a people humiliated for centuries, a people from whom their country had been stolen, their gods, their culture, a people to whom their executioners tried to steal even the name of a man, this people there, on April 27, 1848, by the grace of Victor Schoelcher and the will of the French people, broke their chains and promising sun of an incredible spring, burst on the big stage of the world. " More details on www.soualigapost.com
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