Two steles, two smooth blocks of black brass erected opposite each other, there, in the heart of Paris, not far from the Seine to commemorate the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi in 1994. Two sober steles, dark as the abyss they evoke, powerful, like the crime they remember, and solid like the life and hope they bear witness to. And two presidents, Emmanuel Macron and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame to inaugurate them, surrounded by victims of the genocide, the associations which represent them, members of the government, artists, specialists and young students from a school in the Paris region.
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