Médaille de la Ville de Paris

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Médaille de la Ville de Paris

The Médaille de la Ville de Paris is an award that has been awarded by the Mayor of Paris since 1911 on the proposal of members of the Paris City Council or associations. They are available in four levels: bronze , argent 'silver' , grand argent and grand vermeil 'silver gold' . It honors people who have made a remarkable contribution to the capital . In addition, it is also given to centenarian citizens of Paris and to couples celebrating a marriage anniversary (golden wedding and longer).

Excellent

Among the winners are:

2019

In 2019 the plan was to award Carola Rackete and Pia Klemp , the two captains of the Sea-Watch 3 , the Médaille de la Ville de Paris in the highest level Grand vermeil . This was intended to "recognize the solidarity and commitment to respect for human rights". On August 21, 2019, it became known that Pia Klemp rejected the award and criticized the Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo for her dealings with migrants.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alain Pisani: La Médaille de la Ville de Paris . In: Bulletin de l'Encouragement Public . No. 8 . Encouragement Public, January 2015, p. 23–24 (French, encouragement-public.org [PDF; accessed July 13, 2019]).
  2. Qui peut obtenir la médaille de la Ville? In: Le Parisien . May 15, 2007, accessed on July 13, 2019 (French).
  3. ORF (Vienna): Paris honors Captain Rackete , July 12, 2019
  4. Maximilian Kettenbach, Richard Strobl: Carola Rackete sued Italy's interior minister Salvini - Paris awards her medal. In: Merkur , July 12, 2019.
  5. "Honoring Solidarity" Paris wants to award Carola Rackete the highest medal of merit , Die Welt July 12, 2019
  6. Honor for German captains Carola Rackete is to receive the Paris Medal of Honor T-online.de dpa
  7. Paris honors Carola Rackete and Pia Klemp. In: The time . July 12, 2019, accessed September 12, 2019 .
  8. Angry speech on Facebook: "Sea-Watch" captain Klemp rejects the Paris Medal of Merit , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger August 21, 2019
  9. Pia Klemp Sea-Watch captain rejects the Paris Medal of Merit The city of Paris wants to award Pia Klemp the Medal of Merit. However, the German Sea-Watch captain refused - and criticized Mayor Hidalgo for her dealings with migrants. , Der Spiegel August 22, 2019
  10. Pia Klemp "Sea-Watch" captain refuses award and publishes Brandbrief , Focus August 22, 2019