Martin SCHULZ, EP President participates to the World War II commemoration for Dutch victims in Nijmegen (the Netherlands). Ceremony and commemoration of Jewish victims wreath laying and extracts from the statement

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SCHULZ, Martin (S&D, DE)

Netherlands

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Martin SCHULZ, EP President participates to the World War II commemoration for Dutch victims: Ceremony and commemoration of Jewish victims wreath laying and extracts from the statement

EP President Martin SCHULZ greets Mayor of Nijmegen Hubert BRULS and his staff. Walks in city hall. (2 shots). 

EP President Martin SCHULZ signs golden book of Nijmegen. (6 shots)

EP President SCHULZ walks with Mayor Hubert BRULS to Kitty De Wijze square and then to the monument to the victims of the Holocaust. (7 shots)

Ceremony at the monument to the victims of the Holocaust. (10 shots)

Ceremony at the monument for the victims of the Holocaust. The names of the victims of Nijmegen are read.  (8 shots)

President SCHULZ lays a wreath to honour the victims. (3 shots)

Ceremony at St Steven's church. (5 shots)

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, President of the European Parliament, "For me, as a German, as I think about Europe, it is in-understandable (impossible to understand) that in 1950, five years after the end of World War II, the European nationas were prepared to open the doors for my country to join the European Community for Coal ans Steel".

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, President of the European Parliament, "Five years after the events that we see on the photographies, five years after things happened as you just described and told us, those who suffered under German nazi occupation and their crimes allowed us to get back to the family of democratic nations."

Minute of silence, Nijmegen. The national anthem of The Netherlands is palyed. (2 shots)