US EditionIn Liévin, fifty years after the mining disaster: “Tirelessly, people come back to remember”
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The city of Pas-de-Calais, which commemorates the deadliest post-war mine explosion of the post-war era on Friday, December 27, is striving to highlight, through heritage, its industrial past, without hiding its brutality.
The firedamp of December 27, 1974 and the death of 42 men at the bottom of a mine in Liévin-Lens was the founding act of the career of journalist Sorj Chalandon. From this drama were born a “rage” and a tribute novel, “The Day Before”, published in 2017. On the eve of the commemorations, the 72-year-old writer returns to the need to transmit this memory. Interview.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mining disaster of December 27, 1974 in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais Habitat pays tribute to the victims on Friday December 27, 2024 at 10 am with a mural.
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