The Comete resistance network will be remembered from Thursday to Sunday
- Comete was a resistance network accompanying soldiers and allied pilots in Belgium, France and the Basque Country during the Second World War. The association Amigos de la Red Comete, located in Anglet, has organized various initiatives to commemorate this resistance, including the possibility of hearing testimonies from those who knew the network from within.
On the days of the commemoration of the Comete Resistance Network, people from the international arena will be added: Representatives of the United States, England, Spain and France will be on both sides of the Bidasoa. In fact, from this Thursday to Sunday, the Friends of the Comete Network has organized initiatives to commemorate and honor this network.
Comete was a network of resistance that also crossed the Basque Country in the Second World War. The route began in Brussels, where food, clothing and false identity documents were given to the allied pilots who fell on the other side of the war front and in the enemy camp, where the net entrepreneurs hid the pilots in cameras and basements. From Brussels, accompanied by network guides, they traveled through France Lille, Paris, Tours and Bordeaux to the city of Baiona in Euskal Herria. Subsequently, with the help of the Basque border, the Pyrenees crossed the mountains and reached the other side of the Bidasoa. From there they were already heading towards Bilbao, Madrid or Gibraltar.
Thinking about Paco Iriarte
This Thursday, Le Reseau Comete, written by three artistas.La ligne d'évasion des pilotes alliés ("Red commits. The getaway of allied pilots") will start meetings with a colloquium on the comic book. There will be the artist Marko, among the three cartoonists. The book is based on the experiences of Christiane Saldias, the only resilient network that survives at the age of 94.
On Friday they will pay tribute to the resistance of the time in the monument to the dead of San Juan de Luz and then in the monument to the Comete network, in the Lamothe de Anglet square. On the weekend the association wants to offer the opportunity to walk the path that the resisters made. Paco Iriarte remembers how September 2 died at the age of 87. He was eight years old when Comete was active and got to know the network internally.
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