The French sign a petition against the creation of a tourist attraction dedicated to the landing of the military forces of the United States, Canada and Britain in Normandy on June 6, 1944, also known as the D-Day landings, says thelocal.fr.
National Research Group 1939-45 (Groupe National de Recherche 1939-1945) presented a petition stating that the creation of a tourist center will seriously harm the ecology of the Normandy region, and the idea itself begs the feat of the veterans and people killed during the landing in Normandy and the ensuing battle.
The people of the park have already nicknamed the project “D-Day Land”, while Olivier Paz, mayor of Merville-Franceville, told the local newspaper Ouest France that the project should not be “allowed to become another Disneyland.”
The head of the Normandy Regional Council, Hervé Morin, reportedly proposed creating a “theme park” to commemorate the operation, which marked the beginning of the liberation of France from German troops during World War II.
He substantiated his proposal by saying that every year about 5 million people come to Normandy to honor the memory of fallen soldiers, but there is not a single museum in the region that combines all aspects of a large-scale military operation of the allied forces.
The project is currently at an early stage, but the goal is to complete the construction on the attraction by the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landing in 2024.
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