French President Emmanuel Macron thanked the soldiers deployed in the Allied landing in Normandy 80 years ago, at events commemorating the start of the 1944 campaign to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. “They left everything behind and took all risks for our independence, for our freedom. We will not forget that,” Macron said at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-mer, in the presence of US President Joe Biden and around 170 veterans. “The free world needed every one of you and you came,” Macron said. “You fought this war by our side, and we won it.” Macron honoured 11 elderly US…